Why is 1000mbps internet only guaranteed at 900mbps and what’s the equipment needed to get the 1000mbps advertised?

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Why is 1000mbps internet only guaranteed at 900mbps and what’s the equipment needed to get the 1000mbps advertised?

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Answer 1

When there are a few arguably valid numbers you can use to describe something, different people in different positions will be biased to use numbers that benefit them.

In this case the advertisers/salespersons say 1000mbps because that’s the engineered bottleneck speed of any of the standards and equipment used to bring you the internet.

Of course ‘real world’ stuff brings that number down. Dropped packets or frame loss, slow processing, interference, etc.

Lots of people saying to take 10% off which is a pretty conservative estimate.

The next level of hardware after 1Gbps is 10Gbps so any speeds above 1 uses hardware that supports ’10’. ISP’s can sell you a package that offers you 1100mpbs which will get you your full 1Gbps but all the hardware involved would actually support 10,000mbps.