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RE: 2018 Post-Net Neutrality: Comcast, Cox, Frontier Are Raising Their Rates
Agreed. I mean, we already are...
The problem is a lot of people still think residential broadband is some sort of absolute endgame. As of 2017, 40.7 "mobile only" internet users existed in the US.
More and more "residential internet" is becoming obsolete. Our devices are mobile, and we want our service to be as well. The real competition will be in who can offer the most effective mobile internet solutions to users.
The problem comes in when people assume that mobile technology is a replacement option for a residential internet connection. For as great as 4g lte is, you do not want to try to play any kind of game you expect any amount of low latency on, even potato games like league of legends. MMO's are out of the question, and trying to stream anything would be patchy at best.
As an example, if you say, have a computer that you remote into for security reasons or what have you, that desktop is on a dedicated residential line, your phone is on 4g lte, and trying to scroll a page has so much latency it is disorienting. That is just performance, once you start to factor in costs of a $50 hotspot device, plus ~$16 a gigabyte and all of a sudden watching a public domain movie becomes a ~$20-$30 experience in data alone.
In my opinion, saying that mobile internet is really an option at all is just conditioning people to be used to metered connections that can be just as patchy as dial up used to be.
I type this from Korea, where my phone just completed a 2 gb download in ~5 minutes.
Mobile internet is not inherently slow, it's the infrastructure in the US that is the bottleneck.
I wasn't trying to say it is inherently slow, but that on the basic level, to push the boundaries of internet services, we need low latency high speed connections. Typically that comes to traditional cables, and the cable will almost always be the fastest lowest ping option.
I'm interested, how does your phones data compare to a dedicated line?
What do you mean "how does your phones data compare to dedicated line"? Do you mean is a dedicated line faster?
Yes.
Oh, well yes it is faster, but like how fast do you want it? I mean I'm getting like 25mbps at 60 ping when I do a speed test on my mobile, and depending on the service you select for dedicated line you might be at 10ping and 50mbps. I'd say either of these would be fine for high level gaming, no?