In aus.comms Petzl <
pet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:40:51 +0000 (UTC), n...@telling.you.invalid
> (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
>
>>In aus.comms Mr. Mag00 <
needsg...@nospamplease.com> wrote:
>>> Google Fiber (US spelling) is about to start testing a new 2 Gbps
>>> internet service in two cities with the plan to launch it widely in
>>> 2021, the company announced.
>>
>>Personally, having finally been able to try wired NBN connections,
>>it's a very significant improvement over my 3G mobile broadband
>>internet at home (not that such NBN connections go anywhere near me).
>>Certainly much faster than I would ever need it to be.
>>
>>With everyone streaming videos everywhere I can guess that it might
>>be strained with that, but I'd prefer phone calls personally anyway.
>>It must be working pretty well if people are all using video calls
>>instead.
>
> 3D printing would need VERY fast connections for starters.
Umm no, not at all actually. I've been doing 3D printing for years
over my internet connection, even before when I was on pre-NBN
satellite broadband which was even worse (though mainly with regards
to connection times).
You don't need particularly high-resolution "meshes" for 3D printing,
so for example the STL files for models that I design are ususally
under 500KB. Even if someone does upload a file with a needlessly
high resolution and it ends up tens of megabytes, STL files tend to
compress really well so it might only be a couple of MB in a ZIP
archive. Not inconvenient with my internet speeds, let alone on an
NBN connection.
> Houses, Cars, machinery, can all be 3D printed.
Houses, yes sort of. Machinery, yeah sure. Cars, well yeah bits of
them anyway. Compared to the speed of the printing itself though, I
don't think the download time for the model is ever going to be a
serious issue on a wired NBN connection. Unless it's just user-error
and they've tried to set the mesh resolution to something approaching
infinite.
There's no mistaking when you've got a reply from Petzl.