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Date:
3/21/2019 11:07:27 PM
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RE: Google Game thingy
On a technical level, google stands the best chance of making it work, and it probably does. I'd even say there's a willing market for it, but bandwidth is the biggest hurdle. You'll need 25-30mbps just for *this* service, so households that have multiple people online streaming videos, etc push that requirement up further. The other issue is the difference between your ISP's advertised max bandwidth, and what you get when their network is saturated. Maybe younger people will finally get to experience something similar to having your modem connection dropped because someone picked up the telephone.
Since it's google, it's hard to say if they actually did any market research, but I suspect there's probably plenty of homes with 50+mb connections to make the service tenable, but not to the point where they'd have to make astronomical infrastructure investments. They'd be off to a bad start which would be hard to recoup from if they didn't start off with sufficient hardware resources to serve all their users.
I'd consider using such a service as it has a very appealing convenience factor.
