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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't (stefan.schueller.net)
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[–] -1 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

The actual answer is nobody needs it or wants it.

Few will buy 1.5G+ switches to support it. Fewer will run wires though the walls.

It's a worthless service.

I use my shit a lot and can barely saturate my local network with 1G with 4 others in the house.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    No the actual answer is that AT&T never spent federal money on actually upgrading their infrastructure for resedntial fiber service.

    It would be natural for everyone to be on an 10Gb XGS-PON standard because it's the latest standard. There'd be little cost difference for an ISP in upgrading stuff with something cheaper.

    The actual answer is nobody needs it or wants it.

    I can saturate a 5Gb connection no sweat lol. Unified upload/download speeds makes all that p2p tech way the hell more viable.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    You’re but ONE in a population of billions… « nobody » is a tad of an extrapolation based on you as a sample. I would gladly have more bandwidth. I have services that consumes a lot of it, we are 5 under the roof and everyone likes to stream & d/l on steam…

    So between you and I it’s 50% in need of more bandwidth.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    👌👍 all 12 of you

    Everyone here just hinges they're existence on edge cases. And then asks to be subsidized 🙄

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    My point is; maybe you are the edge case… you are the one making over-généralisations. Which, through time, will likely be found to be plainly false.

    There was a time when ISDN was deemed unnecessary for home users that were relegated to 56k bauds.

    And now look at your 2gbps. Then consider 10 years from now.

    I’m working in telco / isp and bandwidth is certainly a topic we like to scale based on the increase of average traffic from homes.

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