Ask HN: What if bandwidth weren't an issue?

7 points by jeffool 14y ago ↗ HN

Inspired by a recent news post[1] and thinking of the upcoming Google Fiber[2] experiment in Kansas City, I'm curious what the HN crowd can imagine of the Internet if bandwidth were less of an issue?

Sure, we can all imagine streaming HD quality video and video chat, but what "new" services do greater bandwidth offer that we can't do today?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2884910

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber

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Limes102 14y ago ↗

I imagine it would be possible to run games on remote servers, so people don't have to spend a lot of money on an amazing computer.

jeffool 14y ago ↗

OnLive is doing that now, and says the biggest problem is bad monitors.

Not that I necessarily disagree with you; I'm sure it would help the process. Just saying.

wmf 14y ago ↗

Diskless (NFS) boot from the cloud.

Real-time backup (CDP) to the cloud.

Massive bandwidth may encourage P2P versions of things that are client-server today.