I wonder how many years it will be before we look back and 'remember' when there was a concept of band width or any form of limit on what we can send or receive?

Originally Posted by digitalclips 
I wonder how many years it will be before we look back and 'remember' when there was a concept of band width or any form of limit on what we can send or receive?

If the telecoms have their way?

Millennia. 

I am curious how this line in the job description "Technical knowledge of WiFi (802.11a,b,g, ac) and Ethernet network environments", turns into the headline "802.11ac Gigabit Wi-Fi experts sought by Apple"?

Judging by the listing, 802.11ac knowledge is no more important than any of the other requirements they listed.

Gotta get those clicks?

-kpluck

Of course Apple is interested. Of course they would like it to be as soon as is feasible under their quality standards. Of course they are looking for folks with knowledge.

And when even faster wifi standards are created they will want to use that. same with better video and audio compression, more efficient processors and displays, better batteries.

Tell us something we don't know

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Originally Posted by SolipsismX 


Even TV bandwidth is constrained. VHF is 30 to 300MHz, and if I remember correctly, each channel has a 6MHz band. The only way we have so many channels now is digital and IP.
I can't see how there will ever be too much bandwidth. If we get to a point where the speed is so fast we aren't utilizing it we'll likely always find ways to use it. We don't even have 4K video at 48fps to our homes yet.

I think you're missing the poster's original point.  TV bandwidth may be constrained but the end user does not know about it nor have to experience any problems related to it.  For instance, one of the dirty secrets about things like Netflix is that sometimes it has bandwidth problems and just won't work for a few minutes while some cache is being accessed somewhere on some part of the network between you and the source.  

It rarely if ever happens that the TV stops halfway through a show while it buffers, but with Netflix, Hulu etc., it does fairly regularly.  The same with the app store or iTunes etc. 

One also has to worry about data caps and compression as well.  

I believe the poster was wondering how long it will be before these little pauses, glitches, and other worries will disappear, thus making the new stuff seem as reliable and invisible to the end user as the old TV is/was. 

I really hope Apple's next Airport Extreme supports an iOS-compatible VPN. It is really a pain that you have to use a computer to do it now... or buy a Cisco ASA.

This has to be trolling.

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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil 

 

This has to be trolling.

Yep.