Re: World's Fastest Internet™ in Canadaland

Sun Jun 28 12:58:19 UTC 2015

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> > On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Rafael Possamai <rafael at gav.ufsc.br> wrote:
> >
> > How does one fully utilize a gigabit link for home use? For a single
> person
> > it is overkill. Similar to the concept of price elasticity in economics,
> > going from 50mbps to 1gbps doesn't necessarily increase your average
> > transfer rate, at least I don't think it would for me. Anyone care to
> > comment? Just really curious, as to me it's more of a marketing push than
> > anything else, even though gigabit to the home sounds really cool.
>

You don't run it hot all day long, it's just that you don't wait forever
for things to download when you need something from the Internet.