• Oisteink@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    And what are we downloading? Is the cloud dead? Why do i need 15gbps on my phone? Is it made for consoles and their relentless 120gb patches?

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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      4 hours ago

      For home use, all I can think of is wireless video. 15 GB/s is faster than the fastest DisplayPort or HDMI versions. It could handle any resolution and refresh rate currently in use without any compression. That would be useful for VR headsets since they need low latency.

    • heyWhatsay@slrpnk.netOP
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      6 hours ago

      One example I’ve read, was to remotely drive autonomous vehicles, and feed back all data collected from cameras and sensors. I’m not a fan of it being used this way, but it would mostly serve that kind of purpose.

      • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world
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        6 hours ago

        Putting fiber in the ground is expensive. I work for an ISP, and we estimate fiber overbuild costs at $15/ft. So a mile of underground fiber costs about $79,200.

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          3 hours ago

          Yup. That’s why we gave them all that money years ago to do it. It was cheaper then too.

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      5 hours ago

      1.5gb/s is way more than enough for the average person. Hell, 200Mb/s is more than enough. That would only be 10 min.