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This reminds me of cable internet vs DSL. I was such a DSL partisan. Cable's bullshit, you're sharing speeds with your whole neighborhood, no guaranteed bandwidth, yadda yadda yadda.

But at the end of the day, cable internet ended up being so damn fast it didn't matter. DSL providers couldn't bump the speed fast enough, telcos have to run FTTH to compete with cable, the infrastructure takes too long to arrive, and even with guaranteed bandwidth to the CO, your uplink will be oversubscribed anyway.

I type on gigabit xfinity docsis3.1 that speedtests at 250Mbps.....




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