Posted on 09/29/2022 11:07:17 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Yep. Cut down the wait time on those nipples a lot.
No Thanks.
“No Goog.”
Me neither - for about 15 years.
Okay, so if you had the whole 100 Gbps, that would be an entire Terabyte in under a minute and a half. In reality NIC-mainboard bus connectivity, SSD access times, bus throughput on the SSD (often 6gbps or worse) make that utterly impossible.
At that level, latency is as or more important than raw sustained throughput, especially for gaming, but also for frequent small updates, as in databases. Movies would download fast, though.
pages load pretty darn fast with 150 meg. we are happy.
I remember 300/1200baud modems and using compuserve and AOL, I have had 1gb internet from spectrum sense 2018 and I love it my laptops, desktop, tablet phone TV and directtv box all use it.
My first was a 300Bd .. :\
“Geez, I feel like a dinosaur. Our internet runs at about 60Mbs and the wife and I have no issues. Not sure what use we would get out of 100Gps.”
I get the same speed from Xfinity and it’s enough for me. The only place I stream movies from is Amazon a few times a year. If I did more streaming, I would get 100mbps.
In fact 100mbps is the same price I am paying now...but just on paper. With the 60mbps I get a $10 monthly discount for being paperless and paying automatically via my credit card. I would lose this discount if I went to 100mbps.
ATT just pulled in fiber. 300 up and down $60.00 month
20 years ago I had to evaluate fiber optic versus coaxial for my employer. I noticed that fiber had a similar problem as direct current electricity around 1900: utter dependence on substations. Don't know if they overcame that but it was a big negative then.
But
I forgot about the discs they constantly mailed out and had a display of in all the stores.
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