You are right about your question looking at the state of the matter right now.
However residential broadband for Internet access does not have to be all about ingress and consumption. There is a future where egress and peer to peer traffic is just as viable. Having a network where the nodes are at 25gbit/sec would be wholesome to say it mildly, and ridiculously modernized to put it plainly.
Ok, so around 20 years ago we were fine with 56k, what do you think we need in another 20 years? Unless you wanna put down new lines every handful of years this is actually a good investment into the future.
I don't think we were ever "fine" with 56k, but I think we reached a good speed with 1Gb/s. It will be more than enough for most households until everything we do will scale up in resolution.
Probably the mentioned 25 Gbit/s. At least now nobody needs that at home. I'm not even sure how one would hook up a computer to such a fast connection. certainly not with conventional ethernet.
To help with latency. The line will be quieter for longer periods meaning less congestion. Meaning when you want something it won't need to wait it'll feel instant.
Also, you'll have economy of scale. If every network kit was 25Gbit, then that gets cheaper for all.
Also, the cost of installing is usually the most expensive part, not the hardware. Why no future proof for the next 40 years.
The average person could easily tell the difference between an automobile and a carriage. Not so much the difference between 1 Gbps and 25 Gbps (for now at least). Latency is the more important issue, really.
Their response to that comment pretty much was "people ask that every time, and every time it turns out someone just needs to start offering it for things to happen"
Not only is it fast and inexpensive, it's also regular ethernet (no PON weirdness), so you can use any router you want – as long as it has an SFP28 port. ;)
It’s a great news but I’m a bit skeptical about the people (especially inside non working place) who can really have any benefit over 1 Gbbps connection at the moment. Due to Wi-Fi and Ethernet ports limits, but surely it’s future proof!
Hey - speak for yourself! I have a 10g network at home. My main pc, work laptop (docking station) and all my servers are on 10g. Less than $1000 for a 16 port sfp+ switch and cards.
I regularly max out my 1gbps connection with backups and other data transfers, would love to go to 3 or 5 gbps!
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For example e-hentai.org serve their images from a p2p system called hentai@home and their total network is only using ~4Gbit/sec:
https://e-hentai.org/hentaiathome.php
(or https://imgur.com/a/1H04buw if you don't want to login)
However residential broadband for Internet access does not have to be all about ingress and consumption. There is a future where egress and peer to peer traffic is just as viable. Having a network where the nodes are at 25gbit/sec would be wholesome to say it mildly, and ridiculously modernized to put it plainly.
Asked another way: are there any current fringe use cases for residential users to make use of this kind of bandwidth?
*edit: ugh. Sorry, replied to the wrong comment.
Also, you'll have economy of scale. If every network kit was 25Gbit, then that gets cheaper for all.
Also, the cost of installing is usually the most expensive part, not the hardware. Why no future proof for the next 40 years.
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But things certainly change and increasing capability always leads to someone using it for something (useless or not).
I regularly max out my 1gbps connection with backups and other data transfers, would love to go to 3 or 5 gbps!
Regularly in frequency, sure, but how much on average? Would you notice if your backups took 1 hour instead of 10 minutes?
A watercooler regularly maxes out its water input, but no one getting a drink would notice if it filled its tank by 1 oz/sec or 2.