Priorities wrong

Wibbles

The government has it's priorities totally wrong

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68209712 says that they are planning on spending £5billion on a faster internet - who actually need 1000Mbps ?

The NHS is struggling and £5billion would mean thousands of nurses and doctors could be provided ...

I started on the internet on 56kbps dial up (true speed probably 20kbps) which satisfied my needs at the time - this slowly increased via ADSL to 1Mbps then fibre came and a huge step up to 80Mbps - which is fast enough for most people - so who needs 1000Mbps ?

Rosie_Scope

Thanks for sharing @Wibbles. I'm not very savvy on this kind of thing, do you think we'll ever get to a point in the future where 1000mbps is useful to us as a nation?

It does seem like a strange investment when there are so many other problems with the country. 

Luchia

I have 1GB(1000mbps) full fibre internet but it’s mainly for gaming, most people would be fine with 80-400+(depending on family size and how many connected devices in use at once).

Wibbles

Luchia said:

I have 1GB(1000mbps) full fibre internet but it’s mainly for gaming, most people would be fine with 80-400+(depending on family size and how many connected devices in use at once).

Sorry but I can't see any game or application that really needs 1Gb
I understand that some people are unwilling to wait a few more minutes for a download but any game will run perfectly on say 100Mbps..... That's 1/10 of your speed 
Whereas a life saving op that needs 2 trained surgeons cannot be successfully carried with just the one!! 

Luchia

Wibbles said:

Luchia said:

I have 1GB(1000mbps) full fibre internet but it’s mainly for gaming, most people would be fine with 80-400+(depending on family size and how many connected devices in use at once).

Sorry but I can't see any game or application that really needs 1Gb
I understand that some people are unwilling to wait a few more minutes for a download but any game will run perfectly on say 100Mbps..... That's 1/10 of your speed 
Whereas a life saving op that needs 2 trained surgeons cannot be successfully carried with just the one!! 

It’s mainly for online games when you play with people all over the world, Higher speeds reduces PING(Jitter) but where I live already has 1GB lines installed 

poppy123456

In my opinion before moving onto such high speeds they need to look at areas that have very low speeds. My max speed is 26 Mbps and in todays standards that’s terrible.