Hypx to Technology • 1 year agoGoogle Fiber's 20Gbps Internet to Arrive by Year's End for Select Residential Userswww.pcmag.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down19file-text
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The company plans on offering the service to a small group of customers in select areas as part of an early access program.
minus-square@PeterPoopshitlinkEnglish3•edit-21 year agoHow about instead of working towards giving people stupid speeds that no one’s wifi router is capable of dealing with anyway, you work on improving thr network enough to get rid of everyone’s bandwidth caps and/or making existing services cheaper? crickets That’s what I thought.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoBecause all they’re doing to support 20Gbit is swapping some SFP+ or switches, and a new drop down menu in the CMS. Actually hanging or trenching fiber is an entirely different ballpark of beaurocracy.
How about instead of working towards giving people stupid speeds that no one’s wifi router is capable of dealing with anyway, you work on improving thr network enough to get rid of everyone’s bandwidth caps and/or making existing services cheaper?
crickets
That’s what I thought.
Because all they’re doing to support 20Gbit is swapping some SFP+ or switches, and a new drop down menu in the CMS.
Actually hanging or trenching fiber is an entirely different ballpark of beaurocracy.