Google Fiber’s 20-gig service costs $250 per month
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What would you download with a 20Gbps internet connection?
  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    *20Gbps to your home from their node.

    However, you never upgraded your computer beyond a 1Gbps network connection, the cross connect down the line is limited to less than 10Gbps, the server you want to access throttles you to 100Mbps max, you have 100+ ms ping times.

    Unless you have 20+ devices in your house all trying to pull 1Gbps simultaneously, it’s a bit of a marketing stunt. There may be some edge cases, but even 4K streaming is only 25-50Mbps, so you could run 5 devices and be fine.

    What I’d love to see is guaranteed latency and QoS settings that ensure I’ll never be throttled during any period rather than more bandwidth.

  • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
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    10 months ago

    How the heck do you even utilize that? Most hardware doesn’t get beyond 2.5gig yet, you got to pay out the ass for 10 or higher since that stuff is all datacenter grade. You’d need a router or even just a computer with a QSFP+ port I guess. Easily several months bills in networking hardware if you don’t want to end up bottlenecked on your side. Definitely not for the typical home user anytime soon.