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| Thread ID: 40669 | 2003-12-14 09:31:00 | y do business people want really fast internet | Hiren (3722) | Press F1 |
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| 200436 | 2003-12-14 09:31:00 | I'm just wondering fast Internet is used 4 like gaming and stuff so why would business people want it | Hiren (3722) | ||
| 200437 | 2003-12-14 09:38:00 | I regularly have to transfer (by e-mail and secure server) many megabytes of data for busness purposes. My needs are very similar to other businesses, there is a large amount of B2B (Business to Business) data transfer takes place these days. High speed internet means it doesn't take several hours to transfer the data, only minutes. Gaming does not always require "fast internet" in terms of wide bandwidth, as minimal data is usually transferred when gaming. Fast internet does not always give reduced "ping" times, which is what gamers seen to need. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 200438 | 2003-12-14 09:40:00 | like most peole we don't want to wait around waiting for pages or downloads to finish. also a lot of buinesses have multible pc's connected so they need the bandwidth. don't forget time is money! | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 200439 | 2003-12-14 09:48:00 | take a 500 level ecommerce paper (which will include *keyword* ebusiness */keyword* ) and find out :) | whetu (237) | ||
| 200440 | 2003-12-14 09:49:00 | I only run a small business but I get up to 60 emails a day, a lot have attachments in the forms of receipts, pricelists, promotions, One company I deal with insists on sending me receipts as a screenshot saved in a word document, These a regularly over 2mb its size. Such a pain on 56k,my day comes to a near standstill as i wait for the endless procession of mail to arrive in my mailbox (and I would like to give a little present to the fool from Iraq sending me requests for large amounts of hardware from a yahoo address while claiming to be the director of a billion dollar oil company...) |
metla (154) | ||
| 200441 | 2003-12-14 09:54:00 | cool thats y.... | Hiren (3722) | ||
| 200442 | 2003-12-14 10:59:00 | > Gaming does not always require "fast internet" Yes, mostly turn-based games or very old ones > terms of wide bandwidth, as minimal data is usually > transferred when gaming. Fast internet does not > always give reduced "ping" times, which is what > gamers seen to need. Suggest you investigate it a bit more - larger bandwidth is critical to many current online games. The "minimal" data transfer you suggest is an ideal that game engines/servers aspire to, but many cannot realise it in multiplayer modes where there are more than a couple of players... especially not in recent games. Fast Internet does in fact give better pings, mostly Really, online gamers will almost always benefit from broadband Internet |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 200443 | 2003-12-14 21:14:00 | Moving to Jetstream has been as great as sliced bread. Our office network has speeded up, individual machines can access the net quickly, each now has e-mail, and it even seems,( illogical as it is) that our computers have a new lease of life. We access secure servers such as Land on Line which are very slow and cumbersome. Originally from start to finish it used to take 18 minutes to search and finish printing a land title over dial-up. With Jetstream the same process takes about 3 minutes. And we free up a telephone line as well! All very good news for a rural business. Cheers Winston001 Winston001 |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 200444 | 2003-12-14 21:37:00 | ohh i was interested in wondering why myself... my theory was that they got fast internet coz it actually provides internet and the phone line on 1 line...(cheaper than having 2 lines i think) and not for the speed but seems that speed is pretty important too... |
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| 200445 | 2003-12-14 21:49:00 | Greg S, you'll have to back up your information on gaming, as that is not the case. Fast internet, high bandwidth does not give you a better ping. Ping is latency, which is basically the number of hops it takes you to get to the server and back to your computer include the efficiency of your line, the faster the internet isn't going to improve this. I had a 2Mbit connection and if that gave me the advantage I would have played better but I still had a real ping (true ping) of 70-130ms (you blame your ISP but the real problem may not be them). It really depends on how far you are from the games server and how many hops it takes you to get there. Theoritically, faster internet is better than slower, but if you take into account of how far you are from the server, and your line conditions, you can still end up with a worse ping than someone who's on 56K. |
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