Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I grew up with dial up. Now I have 75 mbps and it’s plenty enough except maybe for that one time once in a while where I’m downloading a game on Steam. I see no point of paying three times what I’m paying right now per month to get 300 mbps. Even if it’s available, even if it’s worth it.
Average internet speeds can be very misleading.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
House size and media consumption are going to be big factors here I think. You get four people trying to stream, game, listen to music, whatever it is people these days use phones for, etc; it’s going to really add up. Sure lots of people barely use the internet and are getting sold way more than they need but it’s not uncommon anymore for multiple hd things to be simultaneously happening in one house
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Content becomes a lot bigger in size while we get too used to getting it immediately. I could’ve laughed and how I set a PC to torrent overnight in pre-100MB times, but with games liberally crossing 100GB line I can see myself going back to that.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
In my area geetting that higher bandwidth is at least an extra $50/month and I’m being conservative. That’s $600/year just to download games quicker.
That means that if you’re buying a new massive game once every month and a half you’re paying just as much for bandwidth to download the game as you’re paying for the game.
This is not good value unless you have so much disposable income that you don’t even know what to do with it.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Which supports my point that average bandwidth is not an indicator of overall quality of internet accessible to the public. It is an indicator of household size.