Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
  • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Symmetric gigabit is this a thing, tho? Usually consumer level broadband can be huge download, but meekly upload no matter the tech used because they’d like to sell you more expensive options. That said I’d benefit greatly with it. And agree with you (and partially OP) that it’s not for everybody. But those of us who need it, it’d be awesome.

    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I have 2 gig symmetric fiber and it costs $70 a month.

      Speed tests confirmed that I’m actually getting 2 up 1.8 down consistently.

      I have my whole house wired with cat 5e and it’s pretty nice.