Ask HN: Will consumers ever have a use for 10Gbit internet
I had this discussion with a friend. While 10Gbit Ethernet seems to be slowly dripping in to consumer hardware, it seems much less clear if users will ever actually have a use for 10Gbit networking. If we look at the biggest network uses for consumers right now, its mostly video streaming and games. A 1 Gbit connection can already stream video at well above the maximum desired quality we will likely ever want. And better codecs are coming out which reduce the networking requirements even more. For video games it seems that large games would go with an asset streaming model like microsoft flight sim which can easily be done with 1 Gbit. Are there any future developments that might make 10Gbit desirable in the consumer space?
Why it failed
I had this discussion with a friend. While 10Gbit Ethernet seems to be slowly dripping in to consumer hardware, it seems much less clear if users will ever actually have a use for 10Gbit networking. If we look at the biggest network uses for consumers right now, its mostly video
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- Gigachad
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews