Priorities wrong

Wibbles
Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 3,042 Championing
in Money and bills
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 ?

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  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 7,267 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    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
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 619 Empowering
    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
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 3,042 Championing
    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
    Luchia Online Community Member Posts: 619 Empowering
    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
    poppy123456 Online Community Member Posts: 64,456 Championing
    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.

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