Comment Re:when? (Score 2) 182
Stop holding back the future by asking for comparisons from today.
There are tens of millions of people that get to make the following choice:
1. Dial up.
2. High latency capped satellite.
If they're "lucky" they one or two more choices:
3. Slow and asymmetric ADSL
4. Fast but capped LTE.
I have no desire to hold back the future but if you ask me to rate my frustrations with the residential internet marketplace in the United States a lack of gigabit+ speeds doesn't make the list.
Incidentally, the sentence that you quoted had the word "residential" in bold. You listed a bunch of potential business and academic applications to refute my assertion that connections like these are useless in the residential setting.