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WiFi development doesn't stop. We also don't know when we need more. When corona hit, a lot of people realized that there normal internet speed was not enough
by Lammma 2y ago
WiFi development doesn't stop.
We also don't know when we need more.
When corona hit, a lot of people realized that there normal internet speed was not enough.
Fiber availability means also a general better availability for people, companies or other organizations to have it when needed (a more rural school for example).
I can also see a future with robots: Imagine you are old and need help. But you only need help a few hours a day for food, cleaning etc. Buy a robot, have someone remote help you through using the robot (video streaming, spacial data streaming, voice, audio etc.)
- lxgr 2y agoDirectionally that's true, but as a counterexample, I've never really had a need for anything > 10 Mbit/s while working from home, and maybe 50 Mbit/s for VOD streaming in the evening. Much more important than high peak data rates was getting those 10 Mbit/s consistently throughout the workday, and in both uplink as well as downlink. For that, top speeds per individual connection are almost meaningless; what matters is a not-oversubscribed network. I nominally got 1 Gbit/s, but during Covid often saw that slow down to 0.3 Mbit/s during business hours. I'd much rather pay for 100 Mbit/s with an SLA (maybe something like "at least 50 Mbit/s to your city's top three POPs at the 99th percentile or you don't pay for the entire month"?) than for "up to 7 Gigabit!!!" with none.