Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
  • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zipEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    It is, in locations with consumer fiber. Had it at the last place I lived, and hands down it was the hardest thing to give up when we moved.

    • oats@piefed.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I have fiber in my basement and could book gbit. Upstream is still nerfed, currently I have 250mbits down, 50 up

      Edit: disregard that, just checked with my ISP and apparently I have an old plan, and could book 1 gig symmetric. For thrice the cost, though