On Monday, 9 July 2018 4:17:14 PM AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-talk wrote:
Fiber all the way would be great, but never likely to happen for homes.
ISPs pay NBN for so mnay Mb/s "pipes", if they don't buy enough MB/s (ala, the pipe is too thin), then there will be more congestion no matter what type of technology connects you to the network.
In some more "developed" countries fiber all the way is a common thing. A friend who lives in Vietnam has 2 fiber connections to his home. He was officially out of the service area for the second, so he had to pay $28 and unlimited iced water to get the workers to run a longer fiber - that's apparently how things work there. As for congestion, if you run your own server for a real-time computer game (Minecraft is one example of a game where you can run your own server for no additional license fees if you have a client license) then you just want low latency connections in your local area. Fiber to all homes in a city would be really good for that sort of thing. The "goplay" package in Debian provides an easy way of searching the Games in Debian and it has some multi-player games in the "action" category. How does Warzone 2100 work for a Internet game? I've tried it for LAN games before but not Internet. If it does work over the Internet then you would probably want a fiber network in your city to get the best results. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/