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You only need 25mbps? Why does everyone think you need gigabit. It is not the size of the pipe, rather the latency to the nearest datacenter.
by monlockandkey 4y ago
You only need 25mbps? Why does everyone think you need gigabit. It is not the size of the pipe, rather the latency to the nearest datacenter.
- Godel_unicode 4y agoOne of the things hiding behind the gigabit recommendation is that there are lots of terrible ISP decisions that might have been made upstream of you, but that symmetric gigabit providers haven’t made by and large. It’s not actually that you need gigabit, but rather that you need an ISP good enough to offer it. Back in the day, FiOS offering gigabit at your address was a handy shorthand for being on a more modern ONT, not using DSL to deliver it to your apartment over crappy copper, etc.