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Google Fiber's 20Gbps Internet to Arrive by Year's End for Select Residential Users (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Hypx@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I know many, many businesses that don’t have 20 or 10 or even 1gig bidirectional internet. This is marketing fluff/flex as they know that even if they offer it to 100% of users. Only a very select few will consume it

[–] speff@disc.0x-ia.moe 3 points 10 months ago

What kind of non-business user can even use this. Even if we assume all of octomom's kids have 3 uncompressed 4k bluray streams running each at once - that's 2.5Gbps max. And no streaming service even offers uncompressed video.

Seriously - what is the point of >1Gbps for normal use? Games? They can be preloaded days in advance nowadays. Even without preloading - it really doesn't take long to download on a gig connection.

[–] geekworking@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Only a very select few will consume it.

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