Faster fiber. How to compete with 5G?
Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 8:56 am
Hi. I love my gigabit fiber. But 5g is coming, and it will be faster. How to compete? Faster fiber! When will sonic offer faster fiber? 10GB?
No, it won't.dhamsher wrote:Hi. I love my gigabit fiber. But 5g is coming, and it will be faster. [ ... ]
People using cloud backup services, for one.uberg wrote:What the hell are people doing where 1gbps isn't sufficient bandwidth?
Seems there is really nothing to answer for sonic’s ceo here. This is a non issue, 5g in homes is many years away and in almost all cases it will not beat fiber speeds and most certainly never for pricing in the same range. Never say never, 5g speeds faster than 1gb with unlimited bandwidth from cellular providers for $40-$100 will not happen in the next 10 years. Most hardware today can barely handle 1gb as Speedtests in this forum show. Nothing a fiber provider has to worry about and fiber can scale higher.dhamsher wrote:@dane would love a response from sonic here.
On how many computers in a house? I use a couple of cloud backup providers, and can't come anywhere near saturating 1Gb doing a file-level backup, even from an SSD.People using cloud backup services, for one.uberg wrote:What the hell are people doing where 1gbps isn't sufficient bandwidth?
That's almost certainly due to throttling on the cloud provider's side, in addition to network congestion between you and the backup server. I suspect that most cloud backup outfits have provisioned their servers to assume typical US residential connectivity, so when you waltz up with your 20-times-faster connection, they're not expecting it.rconti wrote:On how many computers in a house? I use a couple of cloud backup providers, and can't come anywhere near saturating 1Gb doing a file-level backup, even from an SSD.
Then you must have a cheesy NAS, or your LAN has issues. Not to turn this into a tech-measuring contest, but I easily saturate the network copying files to/from the CIFS shares on my FreeNAS box (unless it's a Windows client; then it only goes half as fast).My NAS is certainly nowhere near that fast.