Don't be fooled: Comcast's ‘10G’ doesn't mean what you think it does
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Comcast says Xfinity offers 10G home internet, but the term "10G" is hazy and potentially misleading—especially because it has no relation to 5G for cell phones.

Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speeds::Comcast says Xfinity offers 10G home internet, but the term “10G” is hazy and potentially misleading—especially because it has no relation to 5G for cell phones.

  • whatsarefoogee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    1 year ago

    How is it intentionally confusing?

    Providers have been using G for speeds for a long time. Just because the media became obsessed with 5G for some reason, which uses G for Gen, doesn’t mean the other use of G became intentionally confusing.

    They can just call it DOCSIS 4.0

    And nobody, including myself will know what it means without searching. The actual speed is 10G. As in 10gbps.

    • legion02@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      I’ve beenbkinda tracking this 10g branding for a while. The link speed isn’t actually 10g and they say it’s the 10th generation of their service.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      G never meant speed, you have Gb, gb, gb/s(which is gigabit/second) and GB/s (gigabyte/second). This in itself was marketing nonsense made by network providers to put bigger numbers by using a measurement

      And FWIW, docsis has been around for a long time and is basically meaningless for normal end users. It’s the protocol that your modem/router uses to connect to the CSPs network. You only need to know what it is if something goes wrong or you’re studying networking