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Comcast resists call to stop its misleading "10G Network" claims

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Followed by "Unlimited AT&T 11G" where unlimited stands for the amount of completely opaque fees and charges they can add to your bill. Only to be bested by "Verizon 12G Ultra Fiber" not to be confused with some kind of breakfast product.

But 80% of the American consumers don't have a choice in broadband provider anyway so what does it matter ;-)

5G has become a meaningless marketing term too since the standards organisation (GSMA) actually officially permits phones and networks to show "5G" when they're actually using 4G. It's become such a junk brand.

https://www.lightreading.com/5g/your-5g-icon-is-virtually-me...

It's been a long time since standards meant something. The only improvement seems to be that the new advertised standard has better characteristics than the old advertised standard (for example 110kBps for 5G compared with 100kBps for 4G).

I dislike Comcast in the extreme, but I'll defend their right to give their network as many meaningless G's as they like. I welcome anything that hastens the demise of this idiotic marketing trend.

My main problem with it is that many people interpret the G as being Gbps. And I'm sure they are not offering 10gbps speeds.

But fiber companies are actively advertising residential 10Gbps service…

I don’t think people realize that 20-30Mbps is likely enough for Netflix. What are they going to do with 300-500X of THAT?

Even full screen 4K Remote Desktop doesn’t need much.

Sure, it’s nice to download an ISO at 400Mbps and only have to wait a couple of minutes. But how many actually do that very frequently?

And yes WIFi has evolved, but how many people can actually sustain 1Gbps (or more) to the places in their house where they actually use it?

Or is some USB4 10G-BaseT adapter going to save the day? I feel like a step change in hardware is coming…

All sense and rationality went away a long time ago…

I’d rather have 100Mps Internet at $10/month instead of 1Gbps at $100/month.

Have you seen the size of game patches? 100GB isn't uncommon and you can't play before it's been applied.

Basically it is almost 10Gbps (more like 8-9) to the remote phy node. And that would be split between however many cms are connected and their utilization. So 10Gbps is only possible to a single CM at a time. Newer nodes will have 20Gbps uplink, so potentially doubling speed.

If they are offering anything above 1gbps they are probably delivering it with a "10G" technology. I have 2gbps service coming in on XGS-PON at home.

Well any ISP is using a 10gig connection at some point upstream. But that doesn't mean everyone would be justified in advertising 10 gig speeds.

T-Mobile has been rebranding themselves as the "rebel" of the cell network industry for a while... Maybe someone can convince them to parody this by releasing a "5,736G" network?

Hastening is like Shepard's tone here.

Something I've never experienced since moving to Europe is all the strange ISP outages, slowdowns, or otherwise interruptions that required me to acknowledge that there is a company taking my money to provide me access to the internet.

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