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Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

5Mbps is absolutely bonkers. I had 30/5 back in like 2006. And TCP has an overhead of about 5%, some protocols ever more.

I lost my symmetric gigabit fiber recently after moving and I miss it dearly. Might have upgraded to 3Gbps by now ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I had gigabit a long time ago, and while it was nice, I'm unwilling to pay for it. 50/25 is good enough for me, and it costs less than half what gigabit would cost ($55/month vs $125/month). I just checked, and apparently all plans have half the upload vs download, so that's nice.

Our new service promises to be $60-70 for 250 symmetric, and that would only get me 100/50 at my current ISP, so I'll probably be getting that upgrade when it's available.