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Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speeds (www.pcworld.com)
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Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speeds::Comcast says Xfinity offers 10G home internet, but the term "10G" is hazy and potentially misleading—especially because it has no relation to 5G for cell phones.

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[–] whatsarefoogee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is it intentionally confusing?

Providers have been using G for speeds for a long time. Just because the media became obsessed with 5G for some reason, which uses G for Gen, doesn't mean the other use of G became intentionally confusing.

They can just call it DOCSIS 4.0

And nobody, including myself will know what it means without searching. The actual speed is 10G. As in 10gbps.

[–] legion02 3 points 1 year ago

I've beenbkinda tracking this 10g branding for a while. The link speed isn't actually 10g and they say it's the 10th generation of their service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

G never meant speed, you have Gb, gb, gb/s(which is gigabit/second) and GB/s (gigabyte/second). This in itself was marketing nonsense made by network providers to put bigger numbers by using a measurement

And FWIW, docsis has been around for a long time and is basically meaningless for normal end users. It's the protocol that your modem/router uses to connect to the CSPs network. You only need to know what it is if something goes wrong or you're studying networking