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One thing is that most people really dont need gigabit connection. I'd think most people couldn't tell the difference between 10mbps & 1gig. Maybe 25-100 mbps i
by rb808 9y ago
One thing is that most people really dont need gigabit connection. I'd think most people couldn't tell the difference between 10mbps & 1gig. Maybe 25-100 mbps is required if you have 8 kids each streaming their own movies.
Maybe 5g is enough and the fiber rollout is a waste of resources.
Upstream backups are a little different. It doesn't work quick enough with dsl. But isn't that important.
- zanny 9y ago"Nobody needs more than 640k memory!" We don't see the broad adoption of tech that can utilize 1gbps because too few people have it. If everyone had 1gbps Netflix could increase the bandwidth of their streaming, everyone could do live backups of every file they have in realtime anywhere, hell there are more esoteric use cases like WLAN terminals with centralized compute resources. You could run a normal OS perfectly fine over a gbps connection from anywhere that can maintain that link at low latency. You could use remote GPUs and CPUs to accelerate compute on demand. None of that is possible as long as most Internet users are stuck on two magnitudes less bandwidth. How incredibly shortsighted to think dramatic improvements to performance in any metric are pointless just because we haven't seen the fruits of such improvements already happen yet.
- JohnnyConatus 9y agoI have FIOS and aside from finally syncing my online backups, I've been struck by how little difference / improvement there is over cable. I'm not a gamer so the latency doesn't matter. My TV isn't 4k so no help there and I suspect video "CDNs" will be the primary fix for most of the market. What is the best use case for fiber? I feel like I'm missing it.