On 12/25/20 11:34 AM, Niels Bakker wrote:
* mark.ti...@seacom.com (Mark Tinka) [Fri 25 Dec 2020, 19:11 CET]:
I have a mate up the road who just paid for a 1Gbps FTTH service
because it was the same price as a 100Mbps one. He generally lives
between 900Kbps and 20Mbps.
Gigabit-level FTTH services for the home, I feel, have always been
about marketing ploys from providers, because they know there is no
practical way users can ever hit those figures from their homes.
[...]
Gigabit speeds are about bursting. Foreground activities like gaming,
making online reservations, streaming won't take more than that, but
anything faster is really nice to have when you're waiting for the odd
software download to finish. (You may have noticed that they've been
increasing in size this year.)
Wouldn't cpe that implements proper queuing disciplines be a lot simpler
and cheaper? I got bit by that once when a friend was downloading a game
and it. I flashed a router with openwrt and fiddled with their queuing
nobs and everything was golden.
Mark is probably right though: it's just marketing. Who would have
believed that bandwidth would just become a marketing ploy.
Mike
