Why You Need Gigabit Internet in 2019! (And why you DON'T)

⇨ SO DO YOU OR NOT?

Internet speeds are getting faster and faster in the past few years, with Gigabit internet actually becoming available to many customers across the USA. But is it actually necessary? A lot of the marketing for Gigabit internet is just pure nonsense, with vague reasons. This video goes over reasons why you may actually want Gigabit, and also reasons against getting it.

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#Gigabit #Internet

[drauss]

"My internet is too fast" said no-one ever....

[billdimz]

Meanwhile I have 10mbps and it took me 4 days to download GTA

[PierceMD]

I like how the price of 15 Mbps plans keep going up.

[roscoebaram]

"You need gigabit to brag" - a man who has gigabit

[ElijahCiali]

AT&T promised us gigabit. Now we're stuck in a contract, for a scam.

[kittyyyyyyyy]

I'm with my girlfriend in America and they have AT&T 500/500 and they have a 1 tb data cap. Like the only reason you want such speeds is for huge files, and its almost useless with a cap.

[ItzTruthHurts]

Game Pass does not give you access to their entire library of games....

[GarysTechLab]

Also note, the upload use-case only applies if the ISP wants you to have a high upload. I've seen most cable companies that do gigabit over cable have speeds like 1000 down / 25 up. So only the download is fast, the upload is barely faster if at all. Although, in theory, DOCSIS 3.1 can do 10Gb up and 1Gb down, but most do not have the infrastructure to do this. Fiber will typically give you 10Gb down and up.

[TheTerk]

Gigabit also usually has unlimited data caps, whereas 100Mb might cap at 1TB. Also, upload speeds for gigabit will be significantly higher.

[limcheehean]

We can't even get anything lower than 1Gbps in Singapore

[Liamisdank]

Waiting an hour to down load a game is my dream. It took me 12 hours + to download rainbow 6 siege

[Wibblium]

"as good as iTunes" lol. I stopped using that horrid thing years ago.

[theoassaly]

“Have to wait one hour that sucks” I wait 2 days on ADSL 2+ in Australia

[chookchack]

The purpose of me getting gigabit is to save money. Cox charged me 100$ plus 10$ modem for 150Mbps while centurylink offered gigabit for $65 price for life without that 10$ modem monthly fee. That’s 45$ saved for 6x the speed.

[VV-nwcz]

1) 25Mbit required for 4k video != 25Mbit going through the wire. (due to additional expenses on the transport layer)
2) 4 users, utilizing 25Mbit each != 100Mbit in total (due to collisions, packets being re-sent, etc)
3) You bandwidth does have something to do with the latency. ESPs use traffic shaping to limit the bandwidth and it has dramatic effect on your latency.
4) 100Mbit on ESP's contract stated as 'up-to' 100Mbit, which means that you almost never have it during the peak times (like after work).

[srsykes]

One important fact that you sort of glossed over is the upload speed of connection. My present connection, 480Mbps down and 10Mbps up is as you say way more download speed than I need right now. But the upload speed of only 10Mbps that Comcast offers is horrible. We are talking days, like almost five to backup my system to a cloud server whenever I need a full backup and not just an incremental. I believe upload speed with one gigabit down, is still only 35Mbps, so probably still over a day.

[suhdude]

Meanwhile Linus got a 10 gbit connection

[Tntdruid]

1000 mbps, thats so 2015, im on 5000 mbps fiber 😉

[Buggylt]

In Lithuania 100mbps costs around 8$, 1000mbps costs ~19$ .Mostly cheaper depends on provider, what package you take and if they put package on sale.

[jamesabroomeiii]

You are absolutely correct somebody doing video editing or someone address when using AutoCAD or something like that business-related could use gigabit internet but other than that it's not necessary in any way fashion or form