many new research projects have shown how to exploit existing coax lines to transmit more than enough data
Unlike even existing coax lines fiber is dirt cheap not only on purchase, but also on ownership cost. It does not rust, it is much more rigid, it unvulrnelable to any solar flares or whatever.
In Russia, f.e. most phone cables was quickly replaced with fiber as soon, as fiber become comparable in cost with copper wires. So, that ADSL era of wired internet was just skipped and we turned from modem connectivity directly to fiber era. IDK, may be that is due to late USSR attempt to wire whole country with fiber, so we had serious fiber production and all respective things so it was easy to switch to fiber.
Ayh have a latop right now (ayh just checked :) peaking out at 850mbps wifi which is far more than enough for streaming multiple devices at 4K (especially when ratioed correctly which is where tech shd go --> router and devices that ratio time versus data and prioritize)
You could have 850mbps, but if you have no service able to stream data to you at that rate, it is senseless to have such rates, really. OK, you could utilise such bandwith copying few Tb of data from notebook to home NAS or vice versa, but it's questionable if you do it often enough to really feel need for such speeds.
Unlike even existing coax lines fiber is dirt cheap not only on purchase, but also on ownership cost. It does not rust, it is much more rigid, it unvulrnelable to any solar flares or whatever.
In Russia, f.e. most phone cables was quickly replaced with fiber as soon, as fiber become comparable in cost with copper wires. So, that ADSL era of wired internet was just skipped and we turned from modem connectivity directly to fiber era. IDK, may be that is due to late USSR attempt to wire whole country with fiber, so we had serious fiber production and all respective things so it was easy to switch to fiber.
You could have 850mbps, but if you have no service able to stream data to you at that rate, it is senseless to have such rates, really. OK, you could utilise such bandwith copying few Tb of data from notebook to home NAS or vice versa, but it's questionable if you do it often enough to really feel need for such speeds.
Well, we are slightly bigger with noticeably lower population density. :)