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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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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 :)
Not just up north. I'm in the Maritimes and its the same here.
I work for the telco up here....
I'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?
Can 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".
A bigger pipe will certainly get used occasionally, but I can't help but think that the vast majority of that pipe will sit completely unused for a large percentage of the time you're paying for it. Torrenting is just about the only circumstance I can think of where you might actually get to fully utilize that pipe, specifically because you aren't bound to a single upstream, but you'd almost have to go looking for files large enough for that throughput to matter. An uncompressed blu-ray is what, 25GB, and that's still less than an hour to download on a 60mbit connection. Given that compression is a thing, it just seems like your chances to actually utilize it will be minimal at best.
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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. :)
The rest of the world is fast moving towards 1000mb/s internet meanwhile I'm sitting here in Sydney with my 'Ultra-fast' 6mbps ADSL. I can't even watch HD youtube properly and these amazing advances are going on well beyond my reach. Australia is quickly lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of technology and it needs to make serious roads toward correcting that if it wants to be taken seriously on a global s…
The rest of the world is fast moving towards 1000mb/s internet meanwhile I'm sitting here in Sydney with my 'Ultra-fast' 6mbps ADSL. I can't even watch HD youtube properly and these amazing advances are going on well beyond my reach. Australia is quickly lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of technology and it needs to make serious roads toward correcting that if it wants to be taken seriously on a global s…
I think it's even worse that we _started_ moving towards gigabit (the NBN was going to announce gigabit service just after the last election) and then elected a government that's moving us _back_ to cable.
This 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 pri…
I wish the official broadband definitions included something about the uplink.
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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 pri…
28/1 is a crazy DL/UL ratio. It's probably beyond the point where the narrowness of the uplink slows downloads. I wish the official broadband definitions included something about the uplink.