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The last place I lived at had Google Fiber. Now I live in an area where I am stuck on 200 Mbps. Telecommuting, it's a whole different animal. Upload speeds are
by svaha1728 6y ago
The last place I lived at had Google Fiber. Now I live in an area where I am stuck on 200 Mbps.
Telecommuting, it's a whole different animal. Upload speeds are more like 6 Mbps, which bottlenecks when my wife and I have meetings at the same time.
It's a first world problem for sure, but coaxial cable is a 'deprecated technology' imo. Glass fiber cable is the way to go. I understand why a typical consumer might not care.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoIt's unbelievable that upload bandwidth isn't even communicated in marketing these days. People have been uploading video and photos for a decade now.
- merb 6y agoactually copper is at least not dead, since in short ranges it might have a better latency.
- rhino369 6y agoI also moved from near gigabit to ~200 Mbps. Can't tell any difference at all for download. But going to 20 Mpbs upload is somewhat annoying. I think something like 50/50 or 100/100 Mbps is much more important than gigabit. Especially since, what, 2% of households are probably networked to actually use gigabit.
- titanomachy 6y ago> 2% of households are probably networked to actually use gigabit A decent wireless router will do a gigabit, right?
- vel0city 6y agoAccording to the label on the box? Sure. In practice WiFi in a noisy RF environment with their router tucked into a cabinet on the far side of their house? Doubt they'll usually see more than a few hundred Mbit.
- tunesmith 6y agoGigabit up/down fiber here, with the most recent Orbi WiFi6 mesh (ax6000). WiFi speeds one room away are about 360Mbps.
- throw0101a 6y agoIs that for one device? If 2+ people are doing stuff would that double+ the bandwidth used?
- tunesmith 6y agoI didn't spend a lot of time analyzing - at some point I'll go room to room. But at the time I measured I was the only person in the house.
- rhino369 6y agoDepends what you mean by decent. I've got a 200 dollar router that can get 800 with essentially line of sight. 600 in the new room. But I have to rely on wireline to connect the other half of my apartment. And I'm probably still in the top 10% of networked homes.
- olyjohn 6y agoIt's not the medium that's the problem. DOCSIS 3.1 and 4 are capable of 10 gigs down. DOCSIS 3.1 is good for 2 gigs up and DOCSIS4 capable of 6 gigs up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Comparison The reason you're getting 6 megs up is because of your ISP. And that's the reason your connection sucks, not the 200 down. For anything but large downloads, the difference between 200 down and 1000 down would probably not even be noticeable.
- nopeNopeNooope 6y agoYes, because all that cable laid over the past few decades is capable of carrying the highest standards of signals, regardless of which smaller cable/telco laid it by pinching pennies before being rolled into a giant cable/telco providers bag of terrible things for value extraction without expenditure.