But for real. Seeing as most consumers are using WiFi, a quick google suggests the fastest WiFi standard is 1.3Gbps, what is the usecase besides super users who are willing to wire everything? (Is that 1.3Gbps per device and so a combo of devices can use 7gig?)
[1]: for those not in the US -- "Frontier [airlines]" is a ultra low cost airline
When corona hit, a lot of people realized that there normal internet speed was not enough.
Fiber availability means also a general better availability for people, companies or other organizations to have it when needed (a more rural school for example).
I can also see a future with robots: Imagine you are old and need help. But you only need help a few hours a day for food, cleaning etc. Buy a robot, have someone remote help you through using the robot (video streaming, spacial data streaming, voice, audio etc.)
Directionally that's true, but as a counterexample, I've never really had a need for anything > 10 Mbit/s while working from home, and maybe 50 Mbit/s for VOD streaming in the evening.
Much more important than high peak data rates was getting those 10 Mbit/s consistently throughout the workday, and in both uplink as well as downlink.
For that, top speeds per individual connection are almost meaningless; what matters is a not-oversubscribed network. I nominally got 1 Gbit/s, but during Covid often saw that slow down to 0.3 Mbit/s during business hours.
I'd much rather pay for 100 Mbit/s with an SLA (maybe something like "at least 50 Mbit/s to your city's top three POPs at the 99th percentile or you don't pay for the entire month"?) than for "up to 7 Gigabit!!!" with none.
I get > 2 Gbps goodput on my Wi-Fi but I think you're right that this $310/m offering is aimed squarely at similar power users. 10G-PON uses the same stuff at the back end regardless if they offer 1.1 Gbps or 7 Gbps service so they might as well offer the larger pipe if they can.
I suppose I could have my security camera DVR entirely offsite. That thieves could steal it is kind of a weakness, and I’ve been too lazy to complete my project to auto upload smaller clips based on Frigate detection.
But for real. Seeing as most consumers are using WiFi, a quick google suggests the fastest WiFi standard is 1.3Gbps, what is the usecase besides super users who are willing to wire everything? (Is that 1.3Gbps per device and so a combo of devices can use 7gig?)
[1]: for those not in the US -- "Frontier [airlines]" is a ultra low cost airline