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I'm not sure which ISP you think is going to compete with Google Fiber here in ATX. I'm currently on Grande at 110Mbps over FTTH, and it's OK, but it's not 1Gbps, either.


Anything above 512 mb/sec, as a practical matter, is irrelevant at the present time. Why? Because you're constrained by how fast the remote server can send bits your way and how fast the internet as a whole can route packets to you. So yes, you could torrent the heck out of stuff because the incoming traffic is spread amongst many computers, but you're still going to have delays from sites that do traditional http stuff.




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