As someone with symmetrical 1gig and a home server…. Wtf do you do w 20gig?
Also, aren’t you going to need a rack of equipment to even use it?
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That’s clearly an exaggeration, but 1gig equipment is often actively cooled bc it takes non negligible amounts of compute to route that many packets. I imagine 20gig router is like a small PC
I know many, many businesses that don’t have 20 or 10 or even 1gig bidirectional internet. This is marketing fluff/flex as they know that even if they offer it to 100% of users. Only a very select few will consume it
What kind of non-business user can even use this. Even if we assume all of octomom’s kids have 3 uncompressed 4k bluray streams running each at once - that’s 2.5Gbps max. And no streaming service even offers uncompressed video.
Seriously - what is the point of >1Gbps for normal use? Games? They can be preloaded days in advance nowadays. Even without preloading - it really doesn’t take long to download on a gig connection.
Same. And they send me an email every few weeks to see if I’ll upgrade to 2gig. I pretty damn happy with just the 1gig. I can’t imagine what I’d do with 20gig.
As someone with symmetrical 1gig and a home server…. Wtf do you do w 20gig?
Also, aren’t you going to need a rack of equipment to even use it?
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That’s clearly an exaggeration, but 1gig equipment is often actively cooled bc it takes non negligible amounts of compute to route that many packets. I imagine 20gig router is like a small PC
The cost of the equipment is insane too. It was way too much to upgrade my switch to 2.5 Gbps for local transfers, nevermind any faster speeds.
I know many, many businesses that don’t have 20 or 10 or even 1gig bidirectional internet. This is marketing fluff/flex as they know that even if they offer it to 100% of users. Only a very select few will consume it
What kind of non-business user can even use this. Even if we assume all of octomom’s kids have 3 uncompressed 4k bluray streams running each at once - that’s 2.5Gbps max. And no streaming service even offers uncompressed video.
Seriously - what is the point of >1Gbps for normal use? Games? They can be preloaded days in advance nowadays. Even without preloading - it really doesn’t take long to download on a gig connection.
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Same. And they send me an email every few weeks to see if I’ll upgrade to 2gig. I pretty damn happy with just the 1gig. I can’t imagine what I’d do with 20gig.