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How much is too much speed? I'm a techie and don't really understand the gigabit fascination, especially at their current price offerings. We pay $125 for triple play including 50/50, and they want that much for internet only, speeds that we'll (as a family) hardly ever make use of or benefit from. It's not like memory/storage where you buy once and future-proof. You can also compare it with scaling horsepower in cars. 300hp is more than enough unless you're going to track it.
This is true. For most everyone 50/50 is more than enough for just about anything.
How much is too much speed? I'm a techie and don't really understand the gigabit fascination, especially at their current price offerings. We pay $125 for triple play including 50/50, and they want that much for internet only, speeds that we'll (as a family) hardly ever make use of or benefit from. It's not like memory/storage where you buy once and future-proof. You can also compare it with scaling horsepower in cars. 300hp is more than enough unless you're going to track it.
a 300 HP car isn't going to get you from Point A to B much faster in Long Island traffic. a gigabit internet connection will download/upload a crapload faster then a 50MB connection to make a significant difference for the common folk downloading a movie or a techie doing god knows what behind closed doors.
a 300 HP car isn't going to get you from Point A to B much faster in Long Island traffic. a gigabit internet connection will download/upload a crapload faster then a 50MB connection to make a significant difference for the common folk downloading a movie or a techie doing god knows what behind closed doors.
I can count on one hand the times my wife asked for a movie to download and wanted to watch it that instant. Instead on my 50/50 connection, we got it in maybe 5 minutes. So that significant difference to the common folk... not really all that significant. And that's not even considering the bottleneck at the source you're grabbing from.
Maybe if you had a house full of simultaneous perpetual downloaders you would enjoy it for 3x the cost...
I can count on one hand the times my wife asked for a movie to download and wanted to watch it that instant. Instead on my 50/50 connection, we got it in maybe 5 minutes. So that significant difference to the common folk... not really all that significant. And that's not even considering the bottleneck at the source you're grabbing from.
Maybe if you had a house full of simultaneous perpetual downloaders you would enjoy it for 3x the cost...
My wife is constantly streaming or downloading her shows. My in laws have these boxes that streams shows from their that native country China.
For myself, bandwidth is never too much as it greatly effects my business and the services I sell to my clients. But my work is completely out of norm.
And what 3x the cost. Especially when Fios gigabit is asking for $80.
I just downgraded from 150/150 fios to optimum 200. The loss of upload speed completely sucks. And I'm shocked how much lower the quality of HD tv is on optimum.
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