OK-- This was prompted by the "shaving" thread.
I have Spectrum. Spectrum advertises 100MBps speeds here in metro St. Louis, I usually get 60, this morning I was in the twenties.
Years ago, when Google was putting Gigabit into Kansas City, I asked people-- what can you do with this? And nobody could give me a good answer.
I have a Night Hawk router AC1900 I think. I bought my girl friend a sub thirty buck Tenda AC1200 router and that works just as well given the size of the pipe around here.
So, 5G is coming, we'll have multi gig speeds coming out of our ears. Short of a network of self-driving cars, what is all this speed for? Even twenty down gives me Netflix plus, a bunch of smart speakers, plus my phone, plus a Chromebook, plus my computer and a tablet for book downloads-- all doing fine without buffering. So what is a hundredfold increase of speed going to get me?
I'm a geezer, and I guess I've finally arrived at old [censored] comprehension-- "What do I need this new fangled Internet thingy for, and my flip phone is just fine". Remember laughing at people like this a decade ago. Is there some new reality that I fail to comprehend?
I do understand that self driving vehicles, and telemedicine may require tons of pipe. What about me on my couch with my Roku? What am I missing?
I have Spectrum. Spectrum advertises 100MBps speeds here in metro St. Louis, I usually get 60, this morning I was in the twenties.
Years ago, when Google was putting Gigabit into Kansas City, I asked people-- what can you do with this? And nobody could give me a good answer.
I have a Night Hawk router AC1900 I think. I bought my girl friend a sub thirty buck Tenda AC1200 router and that works just as well given the size of the pipe around here.
So, 5G is coming, we'll have multi gig speeds coming out of our ears. Short of a network of self-driving cars, what is all this speed for? Even twenty down gives me Netflix plus, a bunch of smart speakers, plus my phone, plus a Chromebook, plus my computer and a tablet for book downloads-- all doing fine without buffering. So what is a hundredfold increase of speed going to get me?
I'm a geezer, and I guess I've finally arrived at old [censored] comprehension-- "What do I need this new fangled Internet thingy for, and my flip phone is just fine". Remember laughing at people like this a decade ago. Is there some new reality that I fail to comprehend?
I do understand that self driving vehicles, and telemedicine may require tons of pipe. What about me on my couch with my Roku? What am I missing?
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