Comcast said it will drop "Xfinity 10G Network" brand name after losing appeal.
  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    89·
    11 months ago

    These companies are constantly mislabeling these networks every generation. They are addicted to advertising bullshit.

  • Brkdncr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    542·
    11 months ago

    This shit started with 3g. None of the carriers were even close to supporting 3g, which was designed to support 100mbps.

    Tmo and vzw had a modest improvement from 2g even though it was still slow as shit but AT&T simple did nothing and started calling theirs 3g.

    • aStonedSanta@lemm.eeEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      Doesn’t it stand for generation? Like 3rd generation and 5th generation? This is referencing a wifi router is it not?

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      153·
      11 months ago

      One hundred millibits per second? That means it takes ten whole seconds to send a single bit! That’s outrageous.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        When I sold Century Link that would have cost 59 dollars a month plus 30 dollars in hidden fees.

    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      11 months ago

      4G LTE was the point of no return. It was supposed to mean “it’s not 4G yet but we have an upgrade plan to get there”, but when they finally did, marketing found out that to the average person, going from 4G LTE to 4G sounded like a downgrade, so they rebranded it to 5G.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    484·
    11 months ago

    Who the fuck cares about 10Gbit/s? With data caps, there is nothing I am downloading on a mobile device that is perceptibly faster than downloading it at 1/1000 of that speed

  • blahsay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    412·
    11 months ago

    Fine I’ll stop misleading people about 10g.

    In other news have you heard about our 11g network?

  • Vaggumon@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    11 months ago

    Cool. Now add the modem I just bought 6 months ago, that supports the speeds I pay for and you had on your approved list before your recent updates back to the approved list.

  • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    11 months ago

    When contacted by Ars, a Comcast spokesperson said, “We disagree with the decision but are pleased that we have confirmed our continued use of 10G in advertising.”

    So they basically said “lol no”

  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    121·
    11 months ago

    What’s wild is I assumed that they had created a fake “5G” like name to fool people into thinking it was a 10Gbps network when it’s exactly the opposite.

    Weird.

    • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Kind of. It is the aspiration for 10Gb connections. They have been using the term well before those were a possibility even in a lab.

      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Yeah but they’re using 10G like “5G” is the argument being made rather than saying it’s a 10Gbps network

        It’s just that I expected them to lie differently