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Jonyb222 t1_ivq05to wrote

Reply to comment by vMambaaa in My 17 year old IBM Thinkpad T43 connecting to the internet at 800+Mbit/s by edwardianpug

Well yea, but you're not going to have much use of it a 1Gb connection if there isn't much you can do with it

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vMambaaa t1_ivq2fny wrote

…..you streaming content and loading web-pages has nothing to do with your HARD DRIVE write speed 😂.

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Jonyb222 t1_ivq6s20 wrote

There wasn't that much streaming going on in 2005, and you were limited by internet speeds, which in 2005 was roughly 1-2 Mb/s.

So the main place to use a 1Gb/s connection would be a local network

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Significant-Weight64 t1_iw0ccd8 wrote

A good high-bandwidth, low-latency network connection such as you might find at a university was great back then because it meant you often retrieve anything from the Internet faster than you could load it from your HDD.

Mind you, fast network connections are still great, but the days when the Internet could be faster than local storage are pretty much gone.

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