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The use cases might lag behind the infra. All the services we use today are designed around the constraint of lopsided upload/download bandwidth on broadband. I
by pokstad 2y ago
The use cases might lag behind the infra. All the services we use today are designed around the constraint of lopsided upload/download bandwidth on broadband. If you build it, it will come.
- nerdjon 2y agoI get what you are saying, but Fios launched their 1gb internet in 2017 and it feels like most services have been stuck at their specific speed since then. I was curious, so I just went to download the Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft. That is capping out at about 70 mbps. Downloading an almost 7gb file in 2 minutes. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying "oh we don't need this speed". But clearly things have not been changing. We have been past my current download speed from Microsoft being a minimum for a while.
- inemesitaffia 2y agoTry Steam
- nerdjon 2y agoI just tried it and it is currently at about 918, which yeah it is high and using a lot of the available speed. I mentioned Xbox getting to 500, so yeah there are some that are. But you're not downloading a game every day, at least not ones that are 50gb and won't just finish very quickly. So that is 2 things that actually seem to utilize the speed that I can get, but it doesn't seem like the rest of the internet is anywhere near this capability and hasn't really been changing much.