Ehhh, in my experience, 1Gbps is a very good speed already, what would please me more is lower latency.
That’s the main reason I haven’t bothered upgrading mine any more.
100mbits with 3ms latency is pretty rocking.
That is a lot of propaganda/sec
- Noam Chomsky: The five filters of the mass media machine
- You’re Not Immune To Propaganda
- Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion
- Edward Bernays, Propaganda
- Michael Parenti,
- Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Getting paid by the letter? Why not just say 50Gbps?
That’s how you know it’s was written by GenAI
I would guess it’s to appeal to the greater United States audience of readers, as at least in my experience most people live in an area where speeds are still measured in the hundreds of Mbps. This would allow for a more direct and distinctly dramatic comparison.
Obligatory reminder that the Third-of-a-Pound burger failed because people thought it was smaller than a Quarter Pounder, since it had a three in it instead of a four.
You get hundreds? I don’t know anyone with that much. Although starting to see very expensive over 100Mbit options now, I use 4G as it’s cheaper and more reliable which is somewhat amusing to be able to say.
Not like I actually need higher speeds anyway.
No, if they cared for that, they’d say 50,000,000,000 Bps
Fair enough. They could even do 100,000,000,000 Nps
I don’t need faster internet. If they had a 2mbps connection for $15, I’d be happy.
Instead, the slowest is 20mbps, for $70. To watch youtube. Wtf do I need all the extra speed for???
You’re talking about the USA, not China. Internet costs in the PRC are much lower than the USA.
Ok. Forget price. A 2mbps connection does just fine for watching youtube. What is a 50,000mbps connection going to do for me when my internet activity is so minimal?
You could watch two YouTube films at once. (No but seriously 2Mb/s is too low even for just YouTube. YouTube recommends 20Mb/s. And that’s probably assuming 30hz. So you probably actually want at double or more. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/78358)
You don’t need to pose that question because you aren’t getting a 50,000mbps connection, as you’re not in China.
Meanwhile Comcast keeps rolling out price increases
My Internet bill went up $5/month.
