There's still no point in gigabit broadband
shkspr.mobi
There's still no point in gigabit broadband
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#2Just download a PS5 game with your PS5 connected to your router.
Justified.
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#3Just download a PS5 game with your PS5 connected to your router. Justified.
In my experience, the Sony servers can barely saturate a 500Mbps pipe.
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#6I work from home, and in video games. I download multiple 80-100GB builds every single day just to do my job. Virgin's 1.2Gbps connection is barely good enough. The moment they bring 2 or 3Gbps out on their nextfibre service I'll upgrade to it almost no matter the cost. I'm jealous of our European neighbours where you can get domestic 10Gbps connections.
But beyond work - the ability to download any game from steam within 10-15 minutes max is amazing. I play online games with friends twice a week and sometimes we decide what to play that evening spontaneously - and being able to download a 100GB game and play it the same evening is a game changer(pardon the pun).
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#8it's great because when your connection drops to 10% its normal speed, you no longer notice
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#9I figured 300 megabit Fios would be enough but I think that when you cheap out, they more severely throttle places like Youtube on the backend.
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#10If the author ever talked to a gamer, they would have learned how ignorant they are.
edit: in case it's not clear, when every other new game from major publisher starts at 50GB or 100GB and can sometimes be 300+GB, waiting 2hrs to download it is terrible and horrible for energy use.