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You can look at it as too much for anyone's needs, or you can see it as enabling tomorrow's applications. Looking back, or looking forward.

Back in the dialup days, nobody in their right mind would run a torrent, or play online shooters, or watch streaming HD video -- such things were utterly impractical over ultra slow links with very high latency. Once people started getting broadband, these applications started appearing.

Of course we need faster links into people's homes. Of course under-1Gbit links into homes in 2022 are ridiculous.



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