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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (15291)	3/24/2010 6:58:18 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Yes, I do. There are several reasons. I'm a heavy Internet business user. When I work from home, I will be on a conference call using VOIP, while uploading and downloading large files, while sharing other files with coworkers across the country using Webex. At the same time, my wife may also be talking to friends using our VOIP line. All of that works just fine with my 7 Mbps download, but it doesn't at all work fine with my 488K upload speeds. The phone quality, file transfers, and webex sharing come to a grinding halt. Then I think about the future. The future is that everyone will be watching streaming HD quality videos over the Internet and streamed to your TV. Imagine instant video on demand from TWC or Comcast or from any of your favorite channels over the Internet streamed to your TV. When I miss shows, I often will connect my laptop to my HDTV and stream the show to it. In the future, I may be able to do that straight from my HD set top box. That takes a hell of a lot of bandwidth, especially if my two kids and wife are doing other bandwidth intensive things. It is literally no different than PC processor speeds. Many people didn't think we'd ever need a PC on everyone's desktop and that PC speeds were good enough at 10 Mghz. That's laughable today. As processor speeds increased, innovation used it up and created wealth along the way. Same thing with Internet speeds. Webex is only possible because of broadband. HD quality video conferencing will only be possible with mega bandwidth upload and download. With today's speeds true HD video conferencing really isn't possible to the home. That's why it is limited to the Enterprise today. Many other things just aren't possible today because of bandwidth constraints. It's limiting innovation.