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> 1gig is still the standard for wired A lot of people already get more than that from their ISP. I had at least 2.5g on every consumer product from the past 5
by numlock86 3y ago
> 1gig is still the standard for wired
A lot of people already get more than that from their ISP. I had at least 2.5g on every consumer product from the past 5 years. Small businesses use at least SFP on the floor level. Yada yada yada. Point is it's probably a regional thing.
- bitcharmer 3y agoNah, you're in a very small minority. Most households have few hundred megs at most
- p1esk 3y agoYou’re probably in US. Meanwhile in Switzerland people are enjoying 25gbps internet: https://www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/ https://www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/
- bitcharmer 3y agoI'm in the UK. What I stated applies to most countries. Switzerland is a niche.
- Almondsetat 3y agoYou also need to have 2.5GB capable hardware in all of your home devices though.
- whatevaa 3y agoYeah, no. You live in a bubble. Most consumers are not above 1g even on fiber. It's probably not even regional, it's very location specific.
- Aaargh20318 3y agoWhere I live (the Netherlands) gigabit is available pretty much country-wide. Not everyone may subscribe to a gigabit plan but it's available to them if they wanted it. ISPs are now just starting to roll out multi-gig, a few are already offering 2.5 or 4gbit plans. Even the ones that do not offer multi-gbit plans yet are already installing 10gbit capable CPEs. I suspect 10gbit service will become available nationwide within a few years.
- stephenr 3y agoA lot of people? 2.5G is rapidly approaching, if not already past the point, for a lot of people where a single machine will never use all of that capacity, and the advantage of higher total bandwidth is to support multiple people doing high bandwidth tasks. In this scenario a 2.5G (or 10G) router is all that's really required to get the benefit, while using the existing 20 year old wiring.
- thfuran 3y ago>rapidly approaching, if not already past the point, for a lot of people where a single machine will never use all of that capacity Now where have I heard that before...
- stephenr 3y ago> Now where have I heard that before... Ok, sorry, in another 30 years time people might want more than 1G to do brain dumps to their robo-shrink. In 2023, there are very few uses for home users that will exceed what a 1G connection can provide. But please enlighten me about where you think you've "heard this before"?
- theryan 3y agoI believe they are referring to the quote from Bill Gates '640K ought to be enough for anyone' in reference to ram.
- stephenr 3y agoI guess I shouldn't be surprised that someone who believes the debunked Gates quote is real, also can't comprehend the difference between "for anyone" and "for a lot of people".
- Aaargh20318 3y ago> In 2023, there are very few uses for home users that will exceed what a 1G connection can provide Video games are getting bigger all the time. The latest Call of Duty apparently is 200GB. On 1gbit you are limited to 125MB/s downloads (assuming zero overhead) that's almost a half an hour to download. PCIe4 SSD's are capable of write speeds of about 7GB/s and PCIe5 SSD's are just hitting the market with even faster speeds. At 10Gbit you can download that game in less than 3 minutes. In neither case are you even approaching the speed at which your PC can store that data. When PCIe5 SSD's go mainstream a home PC user would even be able to saturate a 100Gbit connection.
- organsnyder 3y agoI just got 5gbps symmetrical FTTH installed. I'm in Michigan, so hardly some connectivity utopia. I'm going through a round of upgrading my network devices to be able to actually handle it.
- PinguTS 3y agoYou never visited Germany, aren't you?
- numlock86 3y ago[flagged]