• Oisteink@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    And what are we downloading? Is the cloud dead? Why do i need 15gbps on my phone? Is it made for consoles and their relentless 120gb patches?

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      3 months ago

      One example I’ve read, was to remotely drive autonomous vehicles, and feed back all data collected from cameras and sensors. I’m not a fan of it being used this way, but it would mostly serve that kind of purpose.

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      3 months ago

      1.5gb/s is way more than enough for the average person. Hell, 200Mb/s is more than enough. That would only be 10 min.

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      3 months ago

      Laptops have all but taken over from desktops for everything but AAA gaming. New houses are still built with zero Ethernet because “the internet is Wi-Fi right?”

      People are using their laptops to edit video off of a NAS, MacBooks can run 100 GB LLMs. Heck even non-AAA games are many gigabytes.

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      3 months ago

      For phones / portables, assuming it doesn’t draw more power, it would mean shorter download times, which means less battery usage.

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        3 months ago

        “Assuming it doesn’t draw more power” has got to be the problem here, right? I don’t know much about wireless technology but from a purely physical stabdpoint, faster signals means higher frequencies, which means higher energies, which means more draw from the battery. Yes, shorter active time means less draw, but it’s like that swiss cheese joke:

        Swiss cheese has holes.

        More cheese = more holes

        More holes = less cheese

        Therefore,

        More cheese = less cheese.