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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by powersnail on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:09PM (#31136095)
A significant part of my life is online, indeed, but 99% of the time, bandwidth is a nonissue. Latency, very important. Bandwidth, not so much. I haven't experienced any bandwidth related internet problem in the past ten years, and that's moving from apartment to apartment, from hotel to hotel, from airport to airport.

Don't get me wrong. I'm very much in favor of this upgrade. I just don't think it's going to be an everyday quality-of-life improvement for most people. It's more about providing a service for people with special needs, and future-proofing the infrastructure.

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Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home by klabb3 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @01:27PM (#31136266)
> 99% of the time, bandwidth is a nonissue. Latency, very important

Indeed. And I'm speaking as someone who downloads most visual media before I watch it, so bandwidth matters to me. But not that much. With 100-200 Mbit/s I am good.

Cookie prompts, newsletter pop-ups, scrolljacking and ads constitutes the majority of wasted time for me, by a long shot. Latency to sites in other parts of the world can cause problems sometimes, since number of round trips can be quite high with TLS neg + progressively loaded content.

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