Technology @lemmy.ml schizoidman @lemmy.ml 3 mo. ago

Hong Kong Telecoms announces 50 Gbps fibre broadband to homes and enterprises – OCWorkbench

en.ocworkbench.com Hong Kong Telecoms announces 50 Gbps fibre broadband to homes and enterprises – OCWorkbench

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The fastest internet, hampered by the Great Firewall
Enterprises, sure.

Homes? Why? I can't even find a good use for a single gigabit download for personal use. Being able to download a new game in 3 minutes rather than 5 isn't something I'm willing to pay additional money every month to get. Remote desktops, video streaming, gaming, there's nothing uses that much bandwidth even in my household of 5 people.
- Hong Kong is extremely small. Offering the service to both (and oversubscribing the hell out of 50G) is extremely simple, since a business might be anywhere including close to consumers, so you're building the infra regardless.
  
  I don't think it makes sense for most people to pay for this, but in 1998 you would have said "we will never need more than aDSL for the consumer" yet here we are with 1G/ 5G links to the home that are getting actually saturated.
- You should set up Radarr/Sonarr w/Usenet, that'll saturate your connection lmao, while you're setting that up throw up a Plex/Jellyfin server to lol
  
  Ok sure, but at that point consumer hardware will not be able to do that. Try finding a consumer router capable of more than 2.5gbit, let alone more than 10.
- Medal of Honour VR is 180GB, or about 24 minutes if your download speed never falls below the advertised speed. And that's even a 'nice' example, some of the super large games like Call of Duty and MS Flight Sim update between every time you find time to play and make you download hundreds of gigabytes.
  
  And to say nothing of node_modules.
- Ain't this the truth.
Half the comments be like:

China has fast internet

But at what cost?
I just got gigabit. These folks are getting 50?!
That's sick. We're getting a new fiber network in my city and we'll top out at 10gbit. I'm probably not paying for that (would be >$200/month), but it's nice to know it exists. Who knows, with the rate of web bloat, maybe I'll eventually need it...
Meanwhile sitting here with 50 Mbps that costs probably more then the 50Gbps in Hong Kong
Damnit! I just got 20...
To spy on people better!
I'm betting most people will only have 1gbps capable hardware and cables
- @dutchkimble @schizoidman Likely true. It may be justifiable in a commercial setting but in a home? Just how many HD streams would you need to run to suck up that much bandwidth?
  I get regular calls from my ISP to upgrade to a 1.5GB package (we have #Fibe in this neighborhood). No thanks - the 150Mb I'm paying for is more than enough (but then, our kids have moved out so perhaps I'm not a typical household).
  
  Yeah true you don't need that, I share a gig between 8 people at home and am more than happy

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