[sldev] history question: physics on the server- first for SL ?

[Henri Beauchamp]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:59:27 -0600, Dale Mahalko wrote:

> This, by the way, is going to be a real problem if / when OpenSim becomes
> popular. A home OpenSim is not going to be able to handle more than maybe 4
> people in the sim if your home broadband is capped at 512 kbit outgoing,
> even if the incoming speed is 5 megabit.

In most towns, the current ADSL2+ connection speeds here (France) are
24Mbps downlink/1Mbps uplink (ATM bandwidth: the actual IP bandwidth is
therefore around 15% less than these figures) and fiber optic connections
(either 100% FO or mixed, FO to your building and coaxial cable to your
appartment) offer 100MBps downlink/5MBps uplink... Plenty enough for
OpenSim. :-P

That's an advantage of "old Europe" countries over USA or other large
countries: the population density is much higher and so is the comms
networks density, meaning people are closer to the comms nodes, which
in turn allows higher bandwidth to the end user.

Henri.