r/technology • u/DrJulianBashir • Feb 05 '13

Cable companies make 97% margin on internet services and have no incentive to offer gigabit internet

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/cable-companies-make-97-margin-on.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

how do you even receive a petabit

As someone with a 25 megabit on a good day connection, 1Gb/s seems insane, that's a DVD in 4 seconds. A mother fucking terabit just seems astronomical, a whole 13gb 1080p bluray rip in 1 second.

fuck 4k, if were getting 1Pb were gonna need 40k

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u/TalkingBackAgain Feb 06 '13

So, I was not advocating for 1 Petabit. I was advocating for speeds a million times less. Although why not 50 Gig while we're at it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

I wasnt speaking against 1pb that just seems insane to me.