• AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    So you’re justifying 20gigs at home with full blown cloud data centers? There’s literally no feasible use case for customers. Prosumers, maybe, but even those would probably prefer not to pay consumer prices for hardware and power.

    • poke@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      If everyone had access to these speeds we would find uses. Why install games when it’s faster to load game assets from the cloud than from an HDD? Could save a lot of precious space for console users.

    • StarDreamer
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      1 year ago

      I’m saying that network traffic is exploding exponentially. Sure, right now 20GbE is enough. but in two years? Four? It’s not the throughput per device that is increasing, it’s the number of networked devices. For a family (or several college students) that’s into stuff like this its possible that they’ve already reached the peak capacity of 10GbE. I do agree that it’s way too expensive though.

      That being said, I’m personally very happy running all of my stuff off of 1GbE. But then again, I don’t like IoT devices (despite working in an adjacently related field), nor do I torrent.

    • deur@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      You are the one who brough up (your completely incorrect idea) of Datacenter network deployments as evidence for your argument. You don’t get to be so… surprised… when someone responds to your (bad and factually incorrect) argument.