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Okey you can gigabit internet on Fibre but what prevent you from say getting 10 gigabit internet what part of the infrastructure would have to change
 
If there was enough demand for it, perhaps it would be available.
 
You dont need that fast of a line. High speed doesn't necessarily mean lower latency international communication speed.
You will likely be bottlenecked by your router and your computers NIC
 
Bitco offers 10 gbps but it's really expensive Im just saying if you had money and when t to vumatel and said I will buy you the switches and equipment can you upgrade me to 10gbps could they do it what would they need
 
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You dont need that fast of a line. High speed doesn't necessarily mean lower latency international communication speed.
You will likely be bottlenecked by your router and your computers NIC
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I'm just asking could it be done
 
Yes. You'd be taking up the whole line though? Right? I.e. the fibre in the street delivers 10gbps but its shared. So contention issues etc...
 
And can your graphics render content that fast? Can your CPU, HDD and RAM cope?
 
This is theoretical I'm to way to poor for this and have no need for it just asking question
 
Jeasson said:
Bitco offers 10 gbps but it's really expensive Im just saying if you had money and when t to vumatel and said I will buy you the switches and equipment can you upgrade me to 10gbps could they do it what would they need
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You'd need an ISP first before they (not you) talk to us.
 
Well I remember when Telkom upgraded me from 384kbps ADSL to 1 mbps. I nearly wet my pants with joy and amazement. Now 20 Mbps, quite frankly, seems more than I need.
 
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I'm going to change your question for you. "Assuming that money and ISP capacity isn't an issue, what is holding me back from getting xxxGbps?"

The answer is that I don't really know. You will need to look at fibre tech docs online.
I do know that one of the limiting factors is the rate at which the modem can send and parse the light pulses. Think about it, for 10Gbps, your modem needs to encode/decode 10 000 000 000 light pulses per second. I think that is one, if not the major hurdle at the moment. I don't know at what number it becomes a problem though.

I have read (or maybe thought) about sending different wavelengths of light down the fibre, but since they travel at different speeds, it may cause issues?
 
Entirely possible. You will have to pay for it though, and new hardware as well.

I have seen the capabilities of an uncontended 10Gb line and it's overkill. 1Gb is enough for most people unless you are befok in downloading the entire internet.
 
You may have the speed but can the servers support what you demand? My answer No...there are videos on youtube proving this...
 
Sure you can get 10Gb/s


Fibre is a Best effort(LoL) service and you might not get the speeds advertised

Silly question. Any thoughts?

A 1Gbps connection should be around 1024Mbps If i am not mistaken (please feel free to correct me if i am wrong) but usually most people get around 940 - 960Mbps.... what happens to the remaining 40 -50Mbps. On a 100/100 connection, i used to get 105mbps download and 105mbps upload but on a...
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Jeasson said:
Okey you can gigabit internet on Fibre but what prevent you from say getting 10 gigabit internet what part of the infrastructure would have to change
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If you want to prove that your oil pump is bigger than mine - "Thy will be done, Sheikh Gupta"

It is only the network termination and line termination equipment that will change to accommodate the higher speed.
 
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