Gigaclear starts trialling 5 gigabit symmetric broadband in the UK for just £399 per month - Polidicks

[t]http://imgkk.com/i/pum9.jpg[/t] [url]http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7254-is-5-giga-bits-a-second-enough-broadband-for-you.html[/url] [quote]There are some 10,000 homes in the UK that will have the option of a 5 Gbps broadband connection courtesy of Gigaclear. The Fibre to the Home provider who concentrates on rolling out its FTTP network to villages which can show demand and meet other commercial criteria along with a number of BDUK/Council contracts now is able to offer these symmetric speeds by virtue of building a point to point fibre network.[/quote] [url]http://www.gigaclear.com/gigaclear-trials-the-uks-first-5gbps-ultrafast-broadband-service-for-home-owners-and-businesses/[/url] [quote]Ultrafast pure fibre broadband provider, Gigaclear, has launched Britain’s fastest internet package for retail customers with up to 5Gbps broadband speeds. The H5G and B5G services, for home and business customers, offer download speeds up to 200 times faster and upload speeds 1,000 times faster than the UK average 1. Up until now only the UK’s largest organisations have been able to have such speeds. Available to customers from early 2016 through Gigaclear’s existing fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network, the ultrafast service significantly reduces the time taken to upload and download large files. For example, to download a 1,500MB video can take up to eight minutes on an average UK broadband service. This improves to two minutes on Gigaclear’s 100Mbps service, but will take between just four and six seconds with the new 5Gbps package. ... The H5G and B5G packages are now in trial with a selection of Gigaclear customers and will be available to all Gigaclear customers from early 2016. For homeowners, the H5G package is expected to cost £399 per month including VAT. The business package costs £1,500 per month excluding VAT, with the B5G package offering lower contention rates, a higher service package and premium support.[/quote] [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7DnyP4dqsw[/media]

That's absolutely MENTAL. I could only see people who need this for their job at home (even then, they need the business tier plan) would be getting it.

90% of the population without a 10 gigabit port will marvel at using this

Can the write speeds match the download?

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;49172524]Can the write speeds match the download?[/QUOTE] You'd need a decent SSD. Hard drives have no chance

[QUOTE=smurfy;49172533]You'd need a decent SSD. Hard drives have no chance[/QUOTE] I envy the day that my download is bottlenecked at my hard drive

400 pounds is a bit much. i know some companies who offer 1 gbps for 40 euros a month including telephone and television, so it is definitely possible to be that cheap. then again i dont know if it increases exponentially

[QUOTE=uitham;49172747]400 pounds is a bit much. i know some companies who offer 1 gbps for 40 euros a month including telephone and television, so it is definitely possible to be that cheap. then again i dont know if it increases exponentially[/QUOTE] It's because they basically need to build a whole new network for you.

[QUOTE=uitham;49172747]400 pounds is a bit much. i know some companies who offer 1 gbps for 40 euros a month including telephone and television, so it is definitely possible to be that cheap. then again i dont know if it increases exponentially[/QUOTE] That's how it's gonna be when there's literally no competition

Hell I'd buy it for a month just to be amazed

After switching to gigabit from comcast, I have been living the dream. I can't imagine 5 times this. It just... I can't see a use for it since I can already stream 4k and download things in minutes. I don't really feel like im wasting time waiting for minutes when it used to be hours. I'm a videographer so I upload big files and even then... just minutes.

[QUOTE=Glitchman;49173053]After switching to gigabit from comcast, I have been living the dream. I can't imagine 5 times this. It just... I can't see a use for it since I can already stream 4k and download things in minutes. I don't really feel like im wasting time waiting for minutes when it used to be hours. I'm a videographer so I upload big files and even then... just minutes.[/QUOTE] Lol, you know Comcast is rolling out caps to everyone on their gig plans

[QUOTE=Sableye;49173080]Lol, you know Comcast is rolling out caps to everyone on their gig plans[/QUOTE] Gigabit with a 300 gigbyte cap, 40 minutes of internet usage before you cap out! You sure get what you pay for! :v:

I have a pretty shitty hard drive on one of my computers, and 100 MB/S Download speeds, so usually I get bottlenecked pretty badly I imagine with these speeds it'd be like funneling Niagra Falls through a coffee straw.

Can I get this in Birmingham? I couldn't afford it regardless but this is good, maybe Virgin might boost our speeds from 160>300>1GB HINT HINT VIRGIN PLEASE.

Ludicrous speed GO!

Meanwhile in the US tech powerhouse, we get a max of 24mbps

think of all the linux distros you can download with that

[QUOTE=Glitchman;49173053]After switching to gigabit from comcast, I have been living the dream. I can't imagine 5 times this. It just... I can't see a use for it since I can already stream 4k and download things in minutes. I don't really feel like im wasting time waiting for minutes when it used to be hours. I'm a videographer so I upload big files and even then... just minutes.[/QUOTE] i feel that the change from some amount of time to download and upload giant files to no amount of time would be a pretty big leap that could open up many new possibilities, especially if it ends up with a high adoption rate

cool time to switch!!!!!!!!!

[QUOTE=Dr.C;49173332]Meanwhile in the US tech powerhouse, we get a max of 24mbps[/QUOTE] I get 300 mbps for 40 a month, just sayin. Note, flag says Jamaica, I'm on my honeymoon.

With this sort of speed you could do things like HACK THE PLANET!