On Monday, 30 December 2019 20:33:27 UTC+5:30, robert...@yahoo.com  wrote:   
      
   > If you actually needed 10Gb or 100Gb service, you'd order that from   
   > the ISP.  That is unlikely to be a standard offering for home users,   
   > but will probably be available from their business services division,   
   > although not necessarily to every location they serve (they may not   
   > offer that service to homes, at all, for example).   
   >   
   > Multiple connections are a possibility, and from multiple ISPs, but   
   > again, what services they're willing to provide to a home is an issue.   
   > It's highly doubtful that they'd ever agree to install 100 1Gb fibers   
   > to a single house - if they were providing 100Gb service, it would be   
   > via a single link, or possibly a very small number (for example, you   
   > might get 2x50Gb, although multiple lines may present routing issues   
   > that consumer-grade routers won't deal with).   
   >   
   > In any event, even if the ISP is providing 1Gb drops to all the homes   
   > in your area, it's likely that there's a fair bit of sharing of a link   
   > somewhere on the way back to the rest of the Internet, and that you   
   > and your neighbors are not going to all manage 1Gb/s simultaneously.   
   > So if you got a bunch of those to one, you're not going to get that   
   > multiple of bandwidth.   
   >   
   > The real question is what application do you have in mind where you   
   > need to run 10 or 100Gb/s to a house?  In many ways this would be   
   > similar to demanding the power company install 13.8kV/2000A service to   
   > your house.  They *can* do that - but they're not, unless you've got a   
   > proper large factory.  It's just not something they offer   
   > residentially.  Most businesses provision several Mb/s per employee   
   > for normal Internet access, although that varies greatly on what those   
   > employees are doing.  And if the business is hosting servers and such,   
   > considerable resources might be dedicated to those.  Businesses that   
   > install 100Gb services are usually provisioning fairly large   
   > facilities.   
      
   Right, but you're not answering the question though - assume that I AM a   
   business, not just a residence - what would my ISP have to do to get that kind   
   of bandwidth through? If they're not wired for that already...?   
      
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