"What's the point of Gigabit broadband?"
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"What's the point of Gigabit broadband?"
A few years on and I'm struggling to justify even 500Mbps.
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@Edent That's what you're paying for, but how much are you actually getting? We live in a city in a multi-story building and we're supposed to get 1000 Mbits/s, but rarely even get to 500 MBits/s.
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@Edent I also have a gigabit connection and the biggest difference it made for me was “turning the Internet into my hard drive.” When you can download practically anything within minutes, it’s as if they were already laying around in your computer (conversely, you don’t feel the need to store as many things anymore except perhaps backing up against link rot etc).
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Yes!
Much as I like the idea of a having a symmetrical 1Gbit connection, I've just got no use for it.
My graph for yesterday shows that at no point did I hit 100Mbit.
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@Edent yes, I definitely agree. Latency, reliability (and upload speed if, as with Openreach fibre, it's not symmetrical) are all more important to me than download speed.
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@Edent I do agree, I have 1gb at home and the only thing that hits that is my Xbox. It's fun to see the numbers go up quickly but 500mb would do me and most families fine. Some areas now have 2gb!
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@Edent And that's if you can realistically get those speeds even if you pay for them. Probably not out of the box or when using wifi
