100x the bandwidth would do nothing for your latency issue. Bandwidth is how much can fit in a truck. Latency is how fast the truck drives. Most internet problems are latency related, latency has a top speed limited by the speed of light.
Someone on twitter with a locked account recently posed the question: "What would we be able to do with 100x the bandwidth?" Not sure, but every time it takes more than 100 ms for a website to load I find myself on twitter so maybe productivity would be improved.
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In most cases bandwidth isn't the limiting factor. Even on home connections bandwidth isn't usually a problem.
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@oddballstocks says, latency is our main problem. Also consistency (variable ping times) and dependability (dropped packets) are problems, too. Some startups have tried to create “parallel internets” to solve this problem for online gaming. -
That's cool - didn't know that, thanks.
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