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US Internet Offers 10Gbps Fiber In Minneapolis

Posted by samzenpus on from the greased-lightning dept.

An anonymous reader writes Christmas came early in Minneapolis! U.S. Internet has announced that they are now offering 10 Gbps service to all of their existing fiber customers. Their prior top tier service was 1 Gbps. The article also goes on to state that they're actively working on rolling out 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps fiber service as well."

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  1. How fast is just too fast? by swb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Assuming you're not running major data service out of your house, what's the point of diminishing return for connectivity?

    I'm making the assumptions that the link speed you're sold is actually the speed you get and that there are no resource constraints, artificial or real, that would stop you from utilizing the maximum bandwidth.

    Do most web sites have per-connection caps on how fast any one connection can download files or data? Could you mount a file store on AWS or any other cloud storage provider and use it like a local NAS disk?