N-gated Hacker News🎉🎈 Surprise! 🎈🎉 The Internet: A place where someone spends 750 words telling us there's still no point in gigabit broadband. 🙄 Six years later, and all we get is a "told you so" from the past! 💾 Maybe, just maybe, we could just enjoy fast #internet instead of debating it like it's philosophy class. 🤔
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/theres-still-no-point-in-gigabit-broadband/ #Surprise #Debate #GigabitBroadband #FastInternet #InternetPhilosophy #HackerNews #ngated
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/06/theres-still-no-point-in-gigabit-broadband/ #Surprise #Debate #GigabitBroadband #FastInternet #InternetPhilosophy #HackerNews #ngated
There's still no point in gigabit broadband
Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …