David Gaskill

Hong Kong

Consultant

If Peter moved to Hong Kong Santa would have no trouble in providing him with 1Gbit/s connection at his home or office but I would be interested to know what he would use it for.

I have a 20Mbit/s connection, (the actual speed I get to anybody outside Hong Kong is usually less than this), but even so I rarely find myself inconvenienced by lack of speed..

The few hundred channels of TV that are available to me are delivered via IP but that is separate piece of wire which makes it easy for me to watch TV in the living room and not on a computer which is too much like work…

If you don't want to watch TV and you don't want to play online games why do you need more than 20Mbit/s, (unless you are communing with supercomputers)?

I'm afraid that even in Hong Kong and Peter can't have artificial intelligence on his laptop but I suspect that I would find life somewhat boring if the creative things were done by my laptop and not by me and anyway, if a laptop could write Peter's columns etc might not putting food on the table become a problem...?