http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/14/google_will_upgrade_fiber_network_to_give_10gbps_home_broadband/
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Tom wrote:Basically nothing could use this though. Most consumer ethernet ports only go up to 1 Gigabit. Also 10gigabit internet would be faster then pretty much all hard drives and ssds can write at the moment. It honestly seems like a gigantic waste of money to push to this out when maybe 0.01% could even use it (that is of course assuming that download services like would even be able to saturate the line).
Frostbyrn wrote:Tom wrote:Basically nothing could use this though. Most consumer ethernet ports only go up to 1 Gigabit. Also 10gigabit internet would be faster then pretty much all hard drives and ssds can write at the moment. It honestly seems like a gigantic waste of money to push to this out when maybe 0.01% could even use it (that is of course assuming that download services like would even be able to saturate the line).
I like to think they are doing it to motivate the tech industry to keep up with them
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