Broadband in India: What would you do with a 100mbit/s or 1Gbit/s connection?

It would be very much helpful in Video conferencing with our abroad clients & partner giving real life like discussion without any loss in voice/images.
Video conferencing with high quality video would also be helpful in medical field for performing operations (like 3 Idiots ).
It would also be helpful for HDTV streaming.
Also it would be helpful in faster movement of huge data (if not porn/games/movies ) for various organisation.

it could help small businesses reach out to International clients....just like SVK said, video conferencing...and maybe to watch legally available HD videos...

AC

Finally real time gaming on such high bandwidth networks which of course would normally have low latency to international servers as well.

Otherwise when i actually gave a though about this i don't really need such high speed connections to download movies or whatever. This speed would just improve my overall online experience while browsing & help downloading that really needed file in a very short time or even office VPN flawlessly.

Originally Posted by mgcarley

Don't just tell me how much porn/warez/movies you'll download - be creative.

Set up 50 PCs - split the connection amongst them and run a cafe :P

Originally Posted by SVK

It would be very much helpful in Video conferencing with our abroad clients & partner giving real life like discussion without any loss in voice/images.
Video conferencing with high quality video would also be helpful in medical field for performing operations (like 3 Idiots ).
It would also be helpful for HDTV streaming.
Also it would be helpful in faster movement of huge data (if not porn/games/movies ) for various organisation.

These kinds of things are along the lines of what we had in mind - though considering there will be IPTV (HD and SD) bandwidth is more-or-less moot: the system can handle that any which way.

However, voice/video conferencing should still work fine even on 10mbit/s or less.

Originally Posted by arun.carvalho

it could help small businesses reach out to International clients....just like SVK said, video conferencing...and maybe to watch legally available HD videos...

AC

Ok. Anything else other than a glorified TV?

Originally Posted by madhusudhan7

Finally real time gaming on such high bandwidth networks which of course would normally have low latency to international servers as well.

Otherwise when i actually gave a though about this i don't really need such high speed connections to download movies or whatever. This speed would just improve my overall online experience while browsing & help downloading that really needed file in a very short time or even office VPN flawlessly.

Having 1gbit/s is not necessarily going to magically give you ping times of 60ms to the USA or Europe. They should be far better than existing ISPs - <4ms within Mumbai and 12ms Mumbai to Chennai, but again, not magic.

Originally Posted by probuddha

Set up 50 PCs - split the connection amongst them and run a cafe :P

We wouldn't mind you doing this, however it would only be permitted on a suitable connection - in other words, not a residential one. There are liability issues in running a cyber-cafe in India which basically means you'd need to sign your rights away in case anyone decided to do anything bad from your cafe.

We have 4 levels of connection: Residential, SME, Corporate and MNC - the level you subscribe to is based on the number of seats/computers in your organization - Residential is good for 1-3, SME 1-25, Corporate 26-100, MNC 101+

In the case of 50 seats, we'd provide you with a corporate level connection, which for 100mbit/s flat-rate is still currently expected to be less than 1 lakh per month.

haha. i doubt a cybercafe in india can afford to spend around 1 lakh on just the broadband bill.

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with the rates hovering between 15-25 rupees for one hour of connectivity...

though it can be worth it if the owner can lure gamers and downloaders

Originally Posted by admin

haha. i doubt a cybercafe in india can afford to spend around 1 lakh on just the broadband bill.

For a 50-seat cafe?

Originally Posted by admin

with the rates hovering between 15-25 rupees for one hour of connectivity...

though it can be worth it if the owner can lure gamers and downloaders

At Rs15/hour, assuming 70% of the seats are in use at any one time and assuming the cafe is open say 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, I'm pretty sure they could afford it (525*10*28), but they don't even have to get a 100mbit/s connection - they could get a 50mbit/s connection for less than 60k which would still be more than ideal for gaming. Or if they had a smaller cafe (say 20 seats), they would pay even less for the connection.

But this isn't the point of the thread.

I want to know what you'd use a 100mbit/s or 1gbit/s connection for. Frankly, I'm finding the answers a bit disappointing, considering India is supposed to be all innovative and whatnot. Downloading, Streaming Video, Gaming, Videoconferencing, Business Opportunities, VPNs etc are all fairly obvious uses in my opinion. Think of some possibilities that could be opened up if bandwidth were not a problem for you.

well the fact remains... 100mbps is useless in the indian market. why? because of the lack of services like netflix and amazon video on demand around here.

of course, bittorrent can be used in their place. legitimate uses in homes are far and few for such a high speed connection. though for businesses, there are good uses.