The Gigabit Age Is Upon Us
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The Gigabit Age Is Upon Us
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#2This makes me envious. In the UK, Holy Mother State has determined that 2Mbps + nasty contention ratio + fair usage policy and/or usage cap = "broadband".
Re: The Gigabit Age Is Upon Us
#3This makes me envious. In the UK, Holy Mother State has determined that 2Mbps + nasty contention ratio + fair usage policy and/or usage cap = "broadband".
I hear you. In Canada, "broadband" is 1.5Mbps down and 640Kbps up. Hilarious.
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#4I'm moving to Seattle, and impulsively ordered 1Gbps residential internet service "just because" (from CenturyLink - IIRC it's ~$110/mo).
I since realized that I had no idea what to do with a 1Gbps residential pipe, other than "download things really, really fast."
So, I Ask HN: does anyone have any ideas for interesting use cases for Gigabit home Internet?
Re: The Gigabit Age Is Upon Us
#5This makes me envious. In the UK, Holy Mother State has determined that 2Mbps + nasty contention ratio + fair usage policy and/or usage cap = "broadband".
I hear you. In Canada, "broadband" is 1.5Mbps down and 640Kbps up. Hilarious.
The CRTC is about to review that, likely in early 2016 it will be at least 5Mbps down and ~1 up.
We (Northern Canada) are holding things back :)
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#6Can home consumers actually utilize gigabit connections to any significant degree yet? You need a sending pipe that'll accommodate you in order to actually get what you're paying for. I've got a 60mbps pipe and rarely manage to saturate it outside of things like Steam downloads.
To put it another way, Netflix 4k streams only require 20mbps throughput. I'd have to be watching 4k streaming video on 3 devices concurrently to saturate my current connection; what on earth would you need to do to actually get your milage out of a pipe that's 17 times larger?
Re: The Gigabit Age Is Upon Us
#7Can home consumers actually utilize gigabit connections to any significant degree yet? You need a sending pipe that'll accommodate you in order to actually get what you're paying for. I've got a 60mbps pipe and rarely manage to saturate it outside of things like Steam downloads. To put it another way, Netflix 4k streams only require 20mbps throughput. I'd have to be watching 4k streaming video on 3 devices concurrent…
Probably. Imagine having children. Streaming (up and down), videochatting, gaming, torrenting, downloading patches and so on. They will not hit 1Gbit/s all the time but when everyone is on the net at once it will be nice to have some "room".
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#8This makes me envious. In the UK, Holy Mother State has determined that 2Mbps + nasty contention ratio + fair usage policy and/or usage cap = "broadband".
That's the government definition, but are better plans available for reasonable cost?
A countryman of mine posted in reply to your comment that Canada defines broadband as fairly slow, by modern standards, but I get 28Mbps/1Mbps right now (over cable) and my daughter just ordered a 25/10 DSL package (from the same service provider; two different physical plant owners, same ISP over top). Both plans are reasonably priced, I think (at least compared to the big incumbents and to what we are used to :->).
Re: The Gigabit Age Is Upon Us
#9I'm moving to Seattle, and impulsively ordered 1Gbps residential internet service "just because" (from CenturyLink - IIRC it's ~$110/mo). I since realized that I had no idea what to do with a 1Gbps residential pipe, other than "download things really, really fast." So, I Ask HN: does anyone have any ideas for interesting use cases for Gigabit home Internet?
UHD video streaming (and I don't mean the super compressed Netflix version of it).
Re: The Gigabit Age Is Upon Us
#10Can home consumers actually utilize gigabit connections to any significant degree yet? You need a sending pipe that'll accommodate you in order to actually get what you're paying for. I've got a 60mbps pipe and rarely manage to saturate it outside of things like Steam downloads. To put it another way, Netflix 4k streams only require 20mbps throughput. I'd have to be watching 4k streaming video on 3 devices concurrent…
Probably. Imagine having children. Streaming (up and down), videochatting, gaming, torrenting, downloading patches and so on. They will not hit 1Gbit/s all the time but when everyone is on the net at once it will be nice to have some "room".
That, and, downloading GTA 5's 59 gigabyte installer in 12 minutes was nice... Or, when I was about to leave on a road trip & downloaded my entire itunes library in just a few moments. Lots of cases where insane speed is beautiful.
//moved to Chattanooga for gigabit($70 a month). Love it. :)