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 As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years.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 …
  • edent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I know it is a bit churlish to complain that people haven’t read the post, but I literally say in it:

    To be clear, I think it is a great thing that the UK Government is pushing ISPs to deploy gigabit everywhere. It isn’t at all useful now, but will probably be crucial in the future.