Comment on Google Fiber goes big with 20-gig plan
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 8 months agoHaving a connection that’s not even close to saturated (or backbone for that matter) means lower latency in general. But it also means future proofing and timely issues resolution as you catch problems early on.
LukeMedia@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Future proofing an Internet line doesn’t make much sense to me. If a higher speed plan is available, I’d just upgrade my plan if the need arises, save money in the meantime.
frezik@midwest.social 8 months ago
Flip it around and look from the ISP’s point of view. Once fiber is connected to a house, there are few good reasons to use anything else. Whomever is the first to deploy it wins.
Now look at it from a monopoly ISP’s point of view. You’re providing 100Mbps service on some form of copper wire, and you’re quite comfortable leaving things like that. No reason to invest in new equipment beyond regular maintenance cycles. If some outside company tries to start deploying fiber, and if they start to make inroads, you’re going to have to (gasp) spend hundreds of millions on capital outlays to compete with them. Better to spend a few million making sure the city never allows them in.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That too. To ISP it pays off to future-proof to a degree. More to the point, it’s easier to aggregate high bandwidth users since no one will be using full connection speed all the time, it’s simply impossible. So with 100Gbps they can give 25Gbps service to a lot more people than 4. Closer to 40 or so. Good marketing, test and prepare for future at a decent investment now. It’s how things should be.