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Hong Kong Telecoms announces 50 Gbps fibre broadband to homes and enterprises – OCWorkbench

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The fastest internet, hampered by the Great Firewall
Enterprises, sure.
Homes? Why? I can't even find a good use for a single gigabit download for personal use. Being able to download a new game in 3 minutes rather than 5 isn't something I'm willing to pay additional money every month to get. Remote desktops, video streaming, gaming, there's nothing uses that much bandwidth even in my household of 5 people.
- Hong Kong is extremely small. Offering the service to both (and oversubscribing the hell out of 50G) is extremely simple, since a business might be anywhere including close to consumers, so you're building the infra regardless.
  I don't think it makes sense for most people to pay for this, but in 1998 you would have said "we will never need more than aDSL for the consumer" yet here we are with 1G/ 5G links to the home that are getting actually saturated.
- You should set up Radarr/Sonarr w/Usenet, that'll saturate your connection lmao, while you're setting that up throw up a Plex/Jellyfin server to lol
  
  Ok sure, but at that point consumer hardware will not be able to do that. Try finding a consumer router capable of more than 2.5gbit, let alone more than 10.
- Ain't this the truth.
Half the comments be like:
China has fast internet
But at what cost?
That's sick. We're getting a new fiber network in my city and we'll top out at 10gbit. I'm probably not paying for that (would be >$200/month), but it's nice to know it exists. Who knows, with the rate of web bloat, maybe I'll eventually need it...
I just got gigabit. These folks are getting 50?!
To spy on people better!
Meanwhile sitting here with 50 Mbps that costs probably more then the 50Gbps in Hong Kong
Damnit! I just got 20...
I'm betting most people will only have 1gbps capable hardware and cables
- @dutchkimble @schizoidman Likely true. It may be justifiable in a commercial setting but in a home? Just how many HD streams would you need to run to suck up that much bandwidth?
  I get regular calls from my ISP to upgrade to a 1.5GB package (we have #Fibe in this neighborhood). No thanks - the 150Mb I'm paying for is more than enough (but then, our kids have moved out so perhaps I'm not a typical household).
  
  Yeah true you don't need that, I share a gig between 8 people at home and am more than happy

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