Sky 5gb broadband

[mrk]

I am a heavy DL/UL user household, we average ~2TB a month average in downloads, meanwhile I do upload large youtube content often enough that the 1Gb upload speed comes into great benefit. It's fast enough with 1Gb up/down that for the first time since getting broadband, I can't see the need to want faster speeds for many more years - So I wonder what kind of usage other people have to need 5Gbps lol. if I get a new Steam game then it's often downloaded in 20-30 mins but depending on Steam congestion, doesn't always max out 1Gbps and hovers around 70MB/s rates. Newsgroups though max out the speed 24/7 which is one of my main use cases for downloads.

For ref I have at least 21 wireless devices connected at any given moment throughout the day, at least 4 wired bandwidth consuming machines and the rest general devices like smart hubs and CCTV cameras and so on.

£80 a month is high, especially when factoring in the need for a 10Gbps network requirement, whole reason going to toob was the £33 a month (static IP) price compared to VM's gig1 with cheese uploaded speeds at a "discounted" ~£43 a month that they were wanting.

 

[On Holiday]

The sky’s the limit (pun intended ) when it comes to attainable download speeds from content providers these days. The real bottlenecks are firmly in-and-between your home network and the edge of your ISP’s network - and then out onto the wider internet.

CityFibre’s wholesale pricing is rather non-linear; for example, it can cost an altnet ISP the same amount to resell 1Gbps as it would 5.5Gbps. This means the race for more throughput - while largely unnecessary for most home users - will ultimately drive down overall prices.

We’ve reached a point where raw throughput is essentially the pinnacle of innovation that most ISPs can offer, which is good news from an end-user perspective.

Capacity itself is cheap. For context: I’ve designed ISPs with 800G of usable national backbone and edge capacity for less than ~£10k/month in recurring costs, including equipment CapEx.

 

[Avalon]

Sounds like limited knowledge/ability. With this then its likely correct, most people can't make use of really fast speeds.

Power users are on the other hand can make use of these speeds for both work and pleasure. Torrents aside, my professional work flow speed is dramatically increased by having such upload speeds.

You know what makes me smile? When people who barely post more than a few times a year on here - let alone in networking - and have displayed minimal technical capability/knowledge chooses to make assumptions, but what really cracked me up was you referring to yourself as a 'power user' I don't really need to justify me, or explain where my opinion comes from, but what I imagine we can both agree on is one of us knows more than the other about this subject, and one of us just referred to themselves a 'power user'. Where we disagree, is that you actually think they are the same person, and I can't take anything you say seriously after that. Good luck

 

[cp88]

You know what makes me smile? When people who barely post more than a few times a year on here - let alone in networking - and have displayed minimal technical capability/knowledge chooses to make assumptions, but what really cracked me up was you referring to yourself as a 'power user' I don't really need to justify me, or explain where my opinion comes from, but what I imagine we can both agree on is one of us knows more than the other about this subject, and one of us just referred to themselves a 'power user'. Where we disagree, is that you actually think they are the same person, and I can't take anything you say seriously after that. Good luck

Post count / frequency on a forum = technical knowledge? Interesting.