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Google Fiber goes big with 20-gig plan (www.fiercetelecom.com)
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[–] 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I have 10 gig at home, and powerful enough networking hardware that can take advantage of it (Ubiquiti stuff)

Nothing can ever saturate the line. So it's great for aggregate, but that's it

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    It's not often that I can saturate a 1Gbps line, unless you have a large household I don't see much point in going over 1Gbps right now. Though I'm sure there are some exceptions.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Having a connection that's not even close to saturated (or backbone for that matter) means lower latency in general. But it also means future proofing and timely issues resolution as you catch problems early on.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Future proofing an Internet line doesn't make much sense to me. If a higher speed plan is available, I'd just upgrade my plan if the need arises, save money in the meantime.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Flip it around and look from the ISP's point of view. Once fiber is connected to a house, there are few good reasons to use anything else. Whomever is the first to deploy it wins.

    Now look at it from a monopoly ISP's point of view. You're providing 100Mbps service on some form of copper wire, and you're quite comfortable leaving things like that. No reason to invest in new equipment beyond regular maintenance cycles. If some outside company tries to start deploying fiber, and if they start to make inroads, you're going to have to (gasp) spend hundreds of millions on capital outlays to compete with them. Better to spend a few million making sure the city never allows them in.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That too. To ISP it pays off to future-proof to a degree. More to the point, it's easier to aggregate high bandwidth users since no one will be using full connection speed all the time, it's simply impossible. So with 100Gbps they can give 25Gbps service to a lot more people than 4. Closer to 40 or so. Good marketing, test and prepare for future at a decent investment now. It's how things should be.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Man, I'd love to sit on that. Growing up with 56k and living with 100Mb/s now is already a big difference, but it shows when I push and pull docker images or when family accesses the homeserver. 1Gb/s would be better, but probably I'll somehow use up the bandwidth with a new toy. 10Gb would keep me busy for a long time. 20Gb would allow me try out ridiculous stuff I haven't thought of yet.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same, I got 10gbit because there was some competition early with fiber getting wider. Now my same provider has slower offers at lower prices but I don't mind the extra bandwidth in the case I would need it and I have a grandfathered offer so pay the same as 1gbit.

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