> There is no fundamental reason why an ISP could not provide you full 100 Gb/s duplex 24/7 at any point whatsoever on this planet
Well yeah... with enough money. I guarantee that you wouldn't like looking your internet bill when you have those kinds of guarantees.
> What if someone truthfully labeled their product "100 g"
The internet version of this would be 100Mb guaranteed with an SLA. Or 'business class internet' which few consumers buy because it's expensive. It's not like it isn't available -- it's popular among streamers.
Also, as you claim that it is not totally meaningless in this context: Assume an offer of "best effort internet, capped at 100 Mb/s". Please tell me what actual bandwidth I can expect to achieve 90% of the time, and how you derived that value from that offer.
> Well yeah... with enough money. I guarantee that you wouldn't like looking your internet bill when you have those kinds of guarantees.
You are simply missing the point.
> The internet version of this would be 100Mb guaranteed with an SLA. Or 'business class internet' which few consumers buy because it's expensive. It's not like it isn't available -- it's popular among streamers.
No, it's not. There are other possibilities besides "you have a 100% guarantee that 100 Mb/s is available every second of every day" and "if you are lucky, some of your packets may get delivered".
Also, how exactly would a product become more expensive merely because the ISP told you what the product actually is? If an ISP connects up to 10 1 Gb/s links to one 1 Gb/s uplink, say, how exactly does the price of that product become higher if the ISP told you that informartion (or equivalently, that you have a minimum bandwidth of 100 Mb/s available at all times)?!
It's not totally meaningless, and people would understand what it actually means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best-effort_delivery.
> There is no fundamental reason why an ISP could not provide you full 100 Gb/s duplex 24/7 at any point whatsoever on this planet
Well yeah... with enough money. I guarantee that you wouldn't like looking your internet bill when you have those kinds of guarantees.
> What if someone truthfully labeled their product "100 g"
The internet version of this would be 100Mb guaranteed with an SLA. Or 'business class internet' which few consumers buy because it's expensive. It's not like it isn't available -- it's popular among streamers.