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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I love it.
Only thing is that people need to temper their expectations of what speeds THEY will see.
Theoretical limit of 802.11n is 600 Mbps. Most devices are 300 Mbps, though depending on what crappy MiniCard your tablet/laptop manufacturer has decided to use, the real world performance of your Wireless-N can be pretty unimpressive. My dad's HP Pavilion G7 has trouble maintaining connection speeds of 72 Mbps... sitting four feet away from my rockstar of a router. Even the Intel Centrino 802.11n card my Dell Precision has will only reach a maximum of 130 Mbps... which is annoying. In addition, plenty of people still use 802.11g routers.
Also, just because your connection has a beefcake downstream like 1 Gbps doesn't mean sites you access will have similarly capable upstream performance.
I'm looking forward to it being available, and damn right I'll be getting it once it becomes available where I live. But I suspect a lot of whining after people get it and don't get anything close to 1,000 Mbps on Speedtest.net. 
Doesn't say they're using Google for their provider. |
Yup. Key sub-word/concept is "width" - an individual user may not reap the full benefits of gigabit, but in a house with 4 internet savvy people (two adults, two kids), where you've got someone doing some work, someone on Skype, and two kids running NetFlix on iPads, or uploading a video they made to Youtube, plus the household cloud backup churning away in the background, and it's not hard to chew up some substantial bandwidth. Greater bandwidth prevents queueing at the router, since the packets transit your network more quickly, and that helps keep latency lower for everyone.