• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, I was on that until the other week, when my area finally got upgraded to 1Gbps.

    It’s nice for big downloads (and with game sizes what they are now, that bit is a big difference), but for regular use? Not really a vast change. It’s nice that your bandwidth doesn’t suddenly vanish when one of your unattended devices decides to wake up and download a 20GB update for a game you haven’t played in months I guess.

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      1 day ago

      I think you’ve misread my comment or there is some misunderstanding.

      Just in case, it’s a misread, my speed is 40 Mega bit per second - not 40 mega byte per second.

      I have to choose what I want to do and do those things with consideration, otherwise things like streaming will buffer a lot.

      If you thought I said 40MBps, then I’d agree, as i imagine the difference between 320Mbps and 1Gbps won’t be noticed unless you’re timing large downloads.

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        1 day ago

        Yeah, I know. I was on 30Mbps. Took like 5 minutes to download a gigabyte. Now it takes around 10 seconds.

        But most video streaming sites are well below that, and web pages are a few MB tops. The only noticeable difference is when doing larger downloads.

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          23 hours ago

          You and I have completely different views and experiences on this, as I don’t agree with your statement at all; which is why I think you’ve misunderstood.