BigGeorge if you're done with infantile insults - the hardware has existed for years with companies and institutions being the only customers because they invest in the infrastructure. The technology is there but what is missing and will continue to be missing for the general public is that infrastructure.
What most people don't understand is that going from 10MB/s to 1GB/s is not the incremental increase we have seen in the past. And the path to 1GB/s is not going to look anything like the path that brought you 10MB/s. That path was a repurposing existing infrastructure. But you're not going to do 1GB/s on phone lines or even cable.
If the general public was willing to invest in that infrastructure as a community they would have it but as you can see even here the majority of people are happy with 4 or 6 MB/s they're getting now and see no need for the investment.
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BigGeorge if you're done with infantile insults - the hardware has existed for years with companies and institutions being the only customers because they invest in the infrastructure. The technology
is there but what is missing and will continue to be missing for the general public is that infrastructure.
What most people don't understand is that going from 10MB/s to 1GB/s is not the incremental increase we have seen in the past. And the path to 1GB/s is not going to look anything like the path that brought you 10MB/s. That path was a repurposing existing infrastructure. But you're not going to do 1GB/s on phone lines or even cable.
If the general public was willing to invest in that infrastructure as a community they would have it but as you can see even here the majority of people are happy with 4 or 6 MB/s they're getting now and see no need for the investment.