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10 Gbps home internet
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Interestingly enough a North Dakota ISP is now offering 5 Gbps service. They intend to offer 10 Gbps. Price on request only.
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The markets that will be the first to get North Dakota gigabit service at 5 Gbps may surprise you. Broadband provider MLGC is
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Does that take onboard the "fair use policy" we have today?
becasue i recon they would have to go. Bandwidth prices are reducing, but i don't think its a "free for all' just yet.. t may be one day, but not unless the big companies are switch as well to the right model of thinking
I'd pay that.
1Gb symetrical Fiber at my office is $650+/month straight from AT&T for the last 4 years.
My nephews gets 1G/1G for $85 at his apartment 1 and a half miles away.
I knocked my internet down from 1 gig to 500mbps. I actually was planning to go down to 300, but they had a promo.
In a residential setting there is no perceptible difference.
Even as someone who torrents from time to time, the extra few minutes I save downloading a iso isn't worth an additional $40 a month to me.
I use much more data than an average household with ip cameras constantly uploading, and lots of 4k streaming going on, and even 50-100mbps would be fine.
In a residential setting there is no perceptible difference.
Even as someone who torrents from time to time, the extra few minutes I save downloading a iso isn't worth an additional $40 a month to me.
I use much more data than an average household with ip cameras constantly uploading, and lots of 4k streaming going on, and even 50-100mbps would be fine.
after getting my fiber 1Gb service i noticed:
-the LAN side speed measured after all fire walls and routing. After all the data is un-encrypted un-wrapped increased by x10. I switched form a cable TV to a fiber to the house providor so given that, was the improvement just transport and not a speed issue. By my house the cable TV outside plant looks spooky; chunks of insulation hanging off the over head cables. This cant be good.
-the fiber providor up time is great, it has never gone down and required a reset. the cable tv providor needed a monthly general resets.
if when the hdmi 2.1 video spec is fully implemented you will see the need for 10Gb. 8K at 66.6 hz refresh.
?Recomendations:
I am still lookning for a fanless mini ITX chassis pc with a fast hdmi port. at lest 4K resolution and 60hz refresh or better.
-the LAN side speed measured after all fire walls and routing. After all the data is un-encrypted un-wrapped increased by x10. I switched form a cable TV to a fiber to the house providor so given that, was the improvement just transport and not a speed issue. By my house the cable TV outside plant looks spooky; chunks of insulation hanging off the over head cables. This cant be good.
-the fiber providor up time is great, it has never gone down and required a reset. the cable tv providor needed a monthly general resets.
if when the hdmi 2.1 video spec is fully implemented you will see the need for 10Gb. 8K at 66.6 hz refresh.
?Recomendations:
I am still lookning for a fanless mini ITX chassis pc with a fast hdmi port. at lest 4K resolution and 60hz refresh or better.
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You would need to be streaming to at least 100 TVs in the same household for this statement to be true.
It is unclear exactly how much will be required. Huwei suggests up to 300 Mbps. TVTechnology says that 50 Mbps is in the works.
8K: Delivery Challenges and Industry Readiness
Mass deployment is still a ways off.
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Not that big. Not enough for 10Gb internet to be necessary, by any stretch.
Your current connection would be more than capable of streaming to 3 tvs at the same time, even by the worst estimates. Typical estimates put bandwidth required at half of that @HDFan mentioned above, around 150Mbps.
bump vert horz resoluton(s) by two = x4
bump the refresh rate by two = x2
x8
maybe no interlace = x2
x16
maybe not enough science and i am injecting bleach, above, thats my thinking.
also you need to factor in bandwith for transport mamagment
today even for 1Gb residential service there seems a struggle. for example there is no city map where true high speed internet is avaliable in my town. Usally a bad thing so a guess: only a tenth of the neighborhoods have 1Gb service?
bump the refresh rate by two = x2
x8
maybe no interlace = x2
x16
maybe not enough science and i am injecting bleach, above, thats my thinking.
also you need to factor in bandwith for transport mamagment
today even for 1Gb residential service there seems a struggle. for example there is no city map where true high speed internet is avaliable in my town. Usally a bad thing so a guess: only a tenth of the neighborhoods have 1Gb service?
In the US, ha, maybe 2050.
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Somewhat relevant, just sharing for conversation's sake lol.
Where my parents live (rural), the max they can get it 5Mbps - but it's usually 3-4Mbps.....Anxiously waiting for Starlink to become available for them but it'll be pricey! (Approx $150/month CAD).
Where my parents live (rural), the max they can get it 5Mbps - but it's usually 3-4Mbps.....Anxiously waiting for Starlink to become available for them but it'll be pricey! (Approx $150/month CAD).
Oh for sure, where I live a few hours away, I get my TV/Internet for $99 a month. IPTV - Fibre to the Home...
I get internet, $65/1Gb
it is fiber to the house but the outside plant construction is really strange.
There is NO routing and sections of the neighborhood go to a box where each house is plugged into the main line running to the local telephone company building central office. In other words there is a contionus fiber line from my fire wall box to that central office building down the road.
it is fiber to the house but the outside plant construction is really strange.
There is NO routing and sections of the neighborhood go to a box where each house is plugged into the main line running to the local telephone company building central office. In other words there is a contionus fiber line from my fire wall box to that central office building down the road.
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Not anytime soon, in my humble opinion. Current devices that support WiFi can barely do 500 mbps download even with ann 802.11ac (WiFi 5) connection. Now, gigabit speeds will be a lot more common, especially since 802.11ax (WiFi 6) was designed for it, in my opinion.
It is possible to to obtain 1Gbps on even Cat5 (not Cat5e) cables in short runs.
What do you have going on at your house that 10 people are downloading 1Gbps on separate devices all at the same time?
It totally depends on where the stream is coming from, but if talking about something like Netflix, 1080p HD streams are typically 3Mbps, and 4K streams are 17Mbps.
With a 10Gbps internet, one could theoretically stream HD Netflix on over three thousand different TVs all at the same time. If someone had a bunch of 4K TVs sitting around, they could stream 4K Netflix to 500 different TVs at the same time.
There are some places in the US that have 10Gb internet, and I predict that it will spread over the next decade. 10Gbps internet will probably be widespread in the US in the next 20 years.
The thing is, 1Gbps internet is really overkill for the majority of what most people use their internet for.
Back in 2018, I posted a poll on a local forum asking the amount people are paying for their cable and internet, and was surprised at the amount of people paying $200+ for their services. Almost all of them had 1Gbps internet.
I live in an area of the US that is lucky enough to have multiple ISPs, so it isn't that people are forced to pay these amounts, it just that people are paying for services that they would never utilize.
The ISPs use tactics like asking customers "how many devices do you have in your house connected to the internet" to up-sell to gigabit speeds.
Many of the people paying for 1Gbps used it primarily for Netflix, Facebook, and to pay bills.
I told them that they are overpaying for their Internet, and that 50Mbps would be overkill for their needs, and many of them end up asking their ISPs for cheaper plans.
Some responded saying that the 1Gbps was only $20-$30 more, and I told them that was a few hundred dollars a year that they could save instead of wasting it on something they would never use.
Of course 10Gb internet would be suitable for some private residence, but I suspect that the huge majority of homes wouldn't ever come close to needing 1Gbps, let alone higher.
Maybe for some, it would be for bragging.
The thing is, 1Gbps internet is really overkill for the majority of what most people use their internet for.
Back in 2018, I posted a poll on a local forum asking the amount people are paying for their cable and internet, and was surprised at the amount of people paying $200+ for their services. Almost all of them had 1Gbps internet.
I live in an area of the US that is lucky enough to have multiple ISPs, so it isn't that people are forced to pay these amounts, it just that people are paying for services that they would never utilize.
The ISPs use tactics like asking customers "how many devices do you have in your house connected to the internet" to up-sell to gigabit speeds.
Many of the people paying for 1Gbps used it primarily for Netflix, Facebook, and to pay bills.
I told them that they are overpaying for their Internet, and that 50Mbps would be overkill for their needs, and many of them end up asking their ISPs for cheaper plans.
Some responded saying that the 1Gbps was only $20-$30 more, and I told them that was a few hundred dollars a year that they could save instead of wasting it on something they would never use.
Of course 10Gb internet would be suitable for some private residence, but I suspect that the huge majority of homes wouldn't ever come close to needing 1Gbps, let alone higher.
Maybe for some, it would be for bragging.
I agree in what you say, for normal use it's an overkill unless you have heavy files to transfer between locations.
I have a 1 Gbps fiber connection and I enjoy the buffer it provides, no more lagging whatever you do.
I live in Denmark -the price difference between a 100/100 and 1,000/1,000 connection is USD 3/month, so why not...