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> While the ethernet cables they give out can likely do 10Gbit (but definitely not 25Gbit) very few people have 10Gbit-capable ethernet or wifi chipsets and the
by dmurray 5y ago
> While the ethernet cables they give out can likely do 10Gbit (but definitely not 25Gbit) very few people have 10Gbit-capable ethernet or wifi chipsets and there is no way they will actually be able to routinely transmit data at this speed.
Bit of future proofing, the fibre cables will be in the ground for 10 years and who knows whether consumer devices can routinely do 10G by then. The cost is dominated by the price of digging up the roads, not by sticking a few extra strands in the ducts.
- zahllos 5y agoYeah future proofing makes sense. I'd hope they'd do that anyway if only because once they get out of my building it isn't just a fibre cable for me but for business connectivity too. There's a couple of data centres in my town that host for local businesses so the interconnect need is there. It just feels a bit dishonest to sell a 10G connection and tell the user to speed test on the router's web portal when their PC won't get remotely near that.