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Author Topic: What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?  (Read 30003 times)

re0

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What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?
« on: August 15, 2023, 01:37:25 AM »

« Last Edit: August 15, 2023, 05:20:10 AM by re0 »
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Re: What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2023, 12:57:31 PM »

Loads of reasons why they may not have deployed it, most coming down to there not being any point in the expense. They probably borrowed a 10 Gbit backhaul port from a switch to demo it.

With point to point fibre they could happily sell 25 Gbit, init7 in Switzerland do, but I suspect they'd need to upgrade both the kit customers connect to and the backhaul.

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Re: What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2023, 02:17:46 PM »

They've also changed Chief Executive since then, Matthew Hare left in 2018:
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/06/gigaclear-ceo-matthew-hare-exits-as-isp-aims-for-350k-fttp-premises.html

He's now ZZoomm: https://www.zzoommgroup.com/people/meet-the-team/

It's possibly not in Infracapital's interests at present.
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Re: What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2023, 06:27:18 PM »

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Re: What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2023, 11:23:36 PM »

Most folks don't really use much more data once they get past a certain speed. The ones that do are why acceptable use policies exist as they're either running 'interesting' servers or using capacity because it's there, not for any real valid reason. :)

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Re: What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2023, 08:34:16 AM »

It's possibly not in Infracapital's interests at present.

One company within Infracapital have delivered 25GPON...
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Re: What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2023, 09:28:34 AM »

One company within Infracapital have delivered 25GPON...

I'm aware:
https://www.ogi.wales/press_release/25gb-boost-a-uk-first/

Just making the point that no one really knows what state Gigaclear's infrastructure was in before Infracapital purchased them.
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Re: What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2023, 09:59:22 AM »

Most folks don't really use much more data once they get past a certain speed. The ones that do are why acceptable use policies exist as they're either running 'interesting' servers or using capacity because it's there, not for any real valid reason. :)

That's one of the interesting things I discovered about how the whole "piracy is theft" thing being mostly untrue.

Personally I pirated a fair few games when I was younger as I rarely could afford to buy anything so had to know I liked it first.  I'd try the PC version to see if I liked it then buy on console (as my PC was a toaster so barely ran them), its what got me into Elder Scrolls Oblivion.  I remember downloading GTA 3 I think on dialup, it took two weeks, lol.

But I also know of people who just pirated things for the sake of it, they weren't that interested in the content, they just liked collecting things for some reason.  They never would have bought the thing they pirated.  That kinda confuses me but I guess most people collect something and there are stranger hobbies.

As for speeds, I'm thinking I would probably go for 2Gbit CityFibre but anything faster would just not be worth it.  Just moving content over the LAN at faster than 2Gbit is largely pointless as its very bursty so doesn't average out much faster with 10Gbit each end and cloud services I believe tend to be throttled for uploads anyway unless you have an expensive business plan.
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Re: What happened to the 5Gbps Gigaclear packages?
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2023, 11:59:50 AM »

I'm aware:
https://www.ogi.wales/press_release/25gb-boost-a-uk-first/

Just making the point that no one really knows what state Gigaclear's infrastructure was in before Infracapital purchased them.

Fair one :)
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