Define most places? I know i dont get one (uk) and neither does my german friend or texan friend.
I've only ever seen one despite having used 4 different ISPs for gigabit, and that one was special. It was in an apartment i rented in a converted office tower, line was done via a b2b provider then included in the rent.
Nope. less than a percent of a percent. symmetric plans are extra cost and offered primarily to business.
almost all homes have no ability to exceed gigabit. infact almost all new homes dont even have data wiring. people just want their netflix to work on wifi.
This is probably technically true but very misleading. Fiber penetration in the US has been consistently rising for over a decade now and it is not at all uncommon to have either Google Fiber, Fios, or a local fiber provider available to you in a big city. I bet within the next decade most places will have gigabit fiber available.
Define most places? I know i dont get one (uk) and neither does my german friend or texan friend.
I've only ever seen one despite having used 4 different ISPs for gigabit, and that one was special. It was in an apartment i rented in a converted office tower, line was done via a b2b provider then included in the rent.
Aren't most residential fiber deployments PONs which generally do not offer symmetric bandwidth? E.g. 10G-PON has 10G down / 2.5G up.
Depends on country, its not common here.
Nope. less than a percent of a percent. symmetric plans are extra cost and offered primarily to business.
almost all homes have no ability to exceed gigabit. infact almost all new homes dont even have data wiring. people just want their netflix to work on wifi.
Yup. Spectrum is Michigan will give you up to 2gbps down but not anything more than 200mbps up
Is Spectrum fiber or DOCSIS? I didn't realize anyone was pushing these kinds of numbers for fiber. What's the point other than screwing the users?
Penny pinching. Afaik asymmetric PON is the cheapest possible network tech at scale.
Most places do not have fiber.
We know. The problem is that the above comment said "extraordinarily rare" which is a very different and incorrect threshold.
But for those that do...symmetric is the norm. The number of fiber connections is only going up.
symmetric is not the norm. the infra costs are not worth it. symmetric is primarily a business offering.
This is probably technically true but very misleading. Fiber penetration in the US has been consistently rising for over a decade now and it is not at all uncommon to have either Google Fiber, Fios, or a local fiber provider available to you in a big city. I bet within the next decade most places will have gigabit fiber available.
There are probably more English speakers using the Internet in India than there are in the USA...Let alone the hundreds of millions elsewhere.
You cant just assume everyone is talking about your country online.
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The US is a big place. But the world is bigger. The internet works across the whole world.
There's a long way to go before fibre is commonplace across the world.