Re:1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
by click170 on Sunday June 12, 2011 @03:45AM
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Honestly, I'm tired of the way companies try to market Internet to the masses. Too many people/articles focus on "1Gbps, blazing download speeds". Yeah, for a day, maybe. With bandwidth caps, you can't actually use your connection at full potential all of the time, so I question the way they market it as "1Gbps". Call me when it's confirmed that the 1Gbps package comes with no bandwidth cap, that would be something to write home about.
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"No bandwidth cap" doesn't actually work, though.
The average user (and even the average programmer) wants to use the internet for 1) entertainment, and 2) information. Those tasks don't require sustained, maximum bandwidth usage.
The only people who actually need that kind of bandwidth are either bittorrent... um.... addicts, for lack of a better word, or infected computers, and consist of about 1-2% of the customers.
Their usage patterns degrade the service for everyone else.
Re:1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
by MatthewPhillips on Monday June 13, 2011 @01:25PM
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Netflix is mainstream.