Comments on: Welcome to the Videodrome. Why High speed broadband is the wrong priority. http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/04/18/videodrome/ Social media, active citizens, podcasting, neighbourhoods and more. Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:48:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Pete Ashton http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/04/18/videodrome/#comment-9844 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:13:44 +0000 http://www.podnosh.com/blog/2007/04/18/videodrome/#comment-9844 I have these little meters on my taskbar which tell me how fast stuff is coming down the pipe. The max is 400 KB/s and most sites barely reach that. Flickr, for example, rarely tops 150 or so. Google Video often caps downloads to 200. Also, the more bandwidth you have, the more you want. I find myself getting annoyed that 2gb won't download now, which was unimaginable a few years back. What I really need is fatter upload pipes. Currently Telewest / Virgin limit me to 45 KB/s which takes forever when uploading photos / video. The current 10:1 ratio assumes we use the net just to consume which isn't very web 2.0. I have these little meters on my taskbar which tell me how fast stuff is coming down the pipe. The max is 400 KB/s and most sites barely reach that. Flickr, for example, rarely tops 150 or so. Google Video often caps downloads to 200.

Also, the more bandwidth you have, the more you want. I find myself getting annoyed that 2gb won’t download now, which was unimaginable a few years back.

What I really need is fatter upload pipes. Currently Telewest / Virgin limit me to 45 KB/s which takes forever when uploading photos / video. The current 10:1 ratio assumes we use the net just to consume which isn’t very web 2.0.

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