Tuesday 23 June 2020

Overkill Five

I have started to associate the number 5 with overkill. This is because of 5g and playstation 5. I call it overkill five. 

My phone and my home internet is 4g.  The speed of the internet on my phone is usually about 11 megabits per second. And my 4g router is about 20 megabits per second. I think they can both go faster than that but I never test them early in the morning when there is no traffic. This is perfectly fine for me, when I watch youtube videos or netflix, they are using less than 2 mbs. If I download a video, the speed on the other end is capped at 5 mbs. What I am saying is I rarely use more than 5mbs myself. 

5g can go over 1000 mbs (1gbs). It will probably cap at 100 mbs for individual customers. I'm not complaining, I just want to know why? Why are they making internet so fast that I will only use a small amount of it? I am so confused. Me and my family are using less than 5mbs and they want to give me 100mbs? What is going on? Wouldn't it be better to just close up the gaps in the existing system? 

PlayStation 5 is coming out this year and the thing spits out 4k graphics faster than a yob pissing on a policeman's memorial. Why? Why are they making a machine that is so powerful yet people will be playing mine craft on it. They will play games that work on mobile phones on  a machine that can render graphics better than my eyeballs. Why? 

It reminds me of the sorcerer's apprentice on the movie fantasia. Mickey mouse uses magic to get a broom to fill a well in a castle but the broom overfills it. He cuts the broom with an axe but the splinters resporn into more full sized well filling brooms. Everything goes crazy. 

Overkill five is the word. It is on this blog first. I'm sure I will find other examples. 

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