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Site Status Update – Multi-Gigabit Broadband Packages Added

GreenLantern22

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Thanks to @Mark.J for adding the Multi-gigabit broadband packages page. It’s a great resource to compare the top of the line packages.

Can I just say that it will be great to move away from the argument that “home users don’t really NEED” this much bandwidth. First and foremost people don’t know what other people are doing in their homes so generalising sounds like patronising to me. But more importantly most people are constantly buying things they don’t need. They do it when they buy unlimited data SIM plans and only use a few gigabytes a month. They do it when they buy a luxury car and could well buy a cheaper brand and get from A to B in the same way. They do it when most cars can go faster than the motorway legal speed limit. Or when they buy a £50k purse in Harrods or 25 pairs of trainers. Or the latest iPhone or Samsung phone. And yet we don’t hear constant arguments that you don’t need these things and people are fine with that.

So I really wish people moved away from this argument since it’s pointless. I could be a clueless user and buy a 10Gbit broadband plan and not even realise all my kit is 1Gbit and WiFi can barely get over 1Gbit currently. But all that is irrelevant. Products are not based on needs but on demands. Sometimes companies want to stimulate that demand and get ahead of the market. But that’s about it. Multi-gigabit plans are here to stay and in a few years time they will be the plan most people buy. So discussing whether a home user needs it or not it’s pointless. Mark my words, ISP will start to create an artificial gap between the low bandwidth plans and the high bandwidth plans to force people to go for more expensive plans. So before you know it the people saying they don’t need mult-gigabit plans will be buying them too!

So let this thread be the end of this discussion and a reference point when yet another “you don’t need that speed” person comes along.
 
I think the pages need to include CGNAT info! Its important! :)
 
I think the pages need to include CGNAT info! Its important! :)
I have something planned for that early next year. The catch is that ISPs don't broadcast their CGNAT status, which may also vary between packages, so it's a very laborious thing to identify across hundreds of providers. Plus only a small portion of readers even know what it is.
 
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CGNAT isn't that important to 90%+ of people, if not more.
 
The answer to that is a bit yes and no, since if you take the time to explain to people what CGNAT is, then it can become a factor. But in practice a good implementation, such as one that is flanked by decent IPv6, shouldn't be too much of an issue for most people. A bad implementation, without IPv6, may be more likely to cause some issues - especially for gamers and those with particular security or service needs.
 
It's not important now as I think up until recently most providers were NOT on CGNAT. It will become more relevant when more customers have "glitches" in their everyday activities because of CGNAT. (Again, I agree it's still smaller than 50% of customers but not zero).

This is a transitional period.

Edit: Im not a gamer/consoles etc but I remember reading about issues with some games. Plus... the latency difference!
 
I have something planned for that early next year. The catch is that ISPs don't broadcast their CGNAT status, which may also vary between packages, so it's a very laborious thing to identify across hundreds of providers. Plus only a small portion of readers even know what it is.
Another thing worth having it’s whether a public and / or static IPv4 can be added to the plan. I would consider this to be three separate fields:

Public IPv4 (ie No CGNAT): Yes/No
If No:
Are public IPv4 addresses available for purchase?
Are static IPv4 addresses available for purchase?
 
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This is kind of also already part of what I'm planning, since you can't really talk about CGNAT without talking about IPv6 and Static IPv4s etc.
 
This is kind of also already part of what I'm planning, since you can't really talk about CGNAT without talking about IPv6 and Static IPv4s etc.
In my ideal world the government would force every ISP to publish all their products and all the addresses they serve via a standard API that could be queried by comparison services, aggregation services, market research sites and customers to see what’s available. The evidence out there shows that making data available encourages competition and new use cases that can’t be foreseen.

Funny thing the US FCC asked ISPs to report their coverage by address and found lots of “lies”. Granted some of this was due to data quality but some was due to telcos fighting against municipal broadband projects claiming their serve an area they clearly don’t serve.
 
Funny thing the US FCC asked ISPs to report their coverage by address and found lots of “lies”. Granted some of this was due to data quality but some was due to telcos fighting against municipal broadband projects claiming their serve an area they clearly don’t serve.
Both myself and Andrew over at Thinkbroadband also come across this a fair bit.
 
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