Best post in the thread.
Not sure what your point was, but I like reading it.
Thank you. The point was hardware keeps up, even old hardware is good enough, depending on what you use it for.
I was actually just responding to the post, sorry for not contributing to the real topic of block size. For that, I will just wait and watch what happens. As a simple user of bitcoin, I just include a fee in my transactions and I usually get a confirmation in less than an hour.
The fee I use most of the time is the minimum relay fee, just so the transaction gets relayed to as many nodes as possible. Then I just wait for it to be included in a block.
Everybody get gigabit networks now. Matter of time before more people are on gigabit internet speeds as well.
According to Akamai the average speed in 2015 was 5.1 Mbps. I would say that the data is very accurate as it does not include that many countries from what I can see (not sure how). However, I disagree with the 'everybody get gigabit networks now'. I don't know anyone around me that has access to that either.
I think what I was saying is that a lot of people can get gigabit switches for home use now. That's what I got, I have a cheap 8 port Netgear gigabit switch. So I connect one laptop to it wired, one access point, a raspberry pi that doesn't do anything yet, and my just bought old server. The server has 4 NIC ports, but I only connected one for now.
I transfer files between my laptop and the server faster than I can transfer it using a USB flash drive.
I'm not talking about the internet speed. For internet access, you get whatever you can afford, or whatever is available to you. Google Fiber is not going to be where I am for a long time ... but my brother and a friend are already on 50 mbps DSL (fiber).