Ask HN: What can a nerd do with fiber connection?

4 points·bolhoso··9 comments

I was wondering what would a nerd/hacker do with a 50mbps bandwidth? I'm accepting answers from "participate in a DoS" to "create a bandwidth-hog gadget".

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Have an unpleasant encounter with the sharp end of a "fair use" restriction, it looks like. ;-)

Really, though, 50Mbps is not uniquely much - outfits like 100tb.com have been selling "lots of bandwidth" for a long time. This sharply limits the number of unexplored options you'll have.

That said, there are always open-source projects looking for additional mirrors.

Well, you could do some serious analytics by being subscribed to tens of thousands of RSS feeds, or random searching for strings in news stories or comments to identify origin points more effectively.

That's cool, that would gather lots of significant data to build dictionaries, play with hadoop, etc.

I have 60 megabit for about 40 euro/month cable, it did not change anything except choosing 1080p when possible on youtube ... you get used to it ...

Another thing came to mind: building a proxy server in a SaaS model. Dangerous, but could be u$eful.

Porn, obviously. Thought 50mbps is a bit slow for fibre?

Haha. Despite being slow, it's the best price/bandwidth relation we have in .br.

Check it out (US$ 1,00 = R$2,00) 100mbps (cable) for US$200: http://bit.ly/fioh8k 50mbps (fiber) for US$25: http://www.livetim.com.br/

Makes me miss Europe. I had this in Sweden for ~40/month http://www.speedtest.net/result/595054175.png

I am in the UK and pay more than that for 4mbit down and 1mbit up. Dont really need anymore if I am totally honest, except for downloading distros.

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