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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Indeed. The practicality of it is debatable given a 10Gb NIC is £300, a 10Gb switch £6-700.
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Chicken and egg again. If we don't have products to drive uptake of consumer grade 10Gb equipment we won't have any manufacturers mass-producing economical consumer-grade 10Gb equipment.
I ought to also point out the benefit of 10Gb internet is solely in multi-user scenarios right now, given virtually no single desktop will be able to consume that amount of bandwidth; you'd need something on the order of ten hard drives or four SSDs in RAID to sustain 10Gb levels of throughput. And if you can afford a £500+ storage setup to download at that speed you can afford a 10GbE NIC.
And you forget multi-GbE switches with 10Gb uplinks and/or GbE link aggregation are half that price, not to mention second-hand 10GbE NICs ranging from £50 to £150.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
The population density thing has been done to death. It explains the suburbs, of course, London is a hugely spread out amalgamation of towns after all not a 'purpose built' city, but not MDUs in the centre of town and especially not new-builds that are getting copper.
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The whole London thing has been done to death.
Nomatter how you twist it, it's cheaper and thus more economically feasible to cover an area considerably smaller than London with FTTH than it is to cover an area the size of Scotland and Northern Ireland combined.
That's the point I was getting at
