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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Actually, indoor bandwidth isn't the biggest bottleneck: it is the last mile.
Before the magical, miraculous LiFi can do you any good you need fiber to the curb, at least, and an ISP that doesn't meter, throttle, or charge an arm, leg, and firstborn for triple digit bandwidth speeds.
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Yep! And in the USA good luck with that. Most providers want your firstborn child just for 20 Mbps speed and then it slows down a lot or just goes out on occasion. And with fiber optics like that used by AT&T U-Verse, if a construction crew anywhere within a few miles of you cuts the line, everyone loses WiFi for a very long time (perhaps days) while the AT&T repair crews try to figure out what happened and where. And then there is this: What if you have a BillionBps speed but the website servers you visit are slower than molasses? Well that BillionBps speed will do you no good. The weakest link in the chain is the slowest server being accessed, so no matter what speed you have the other guys will slow it down with their snail speed servers.