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I've got 1gig via hyperoptic in London. Compared to the 80/20 VDSL I had before, browsing is pretty much the same. The difference between enabling and disablin
by martinald 11y ago
I've got 1gig via hyperoptic in London.
Compared to the 80/20 VDSL I had before, browsing is pretty much the same. The difference between enabling and disabling adblock is far far greater than having 1gig.
Uploading files is generally a lot quicker.
However, most internet services can't handle it. I rarely get more than 1-2mbyte/sec to bitbucket or git for example, which is annoying since that can be painfully slow on large repos.
Even worse, hard drives struggle to keep up with high internet speeds. SSDs are fine, but considering how quickly you can fill even a large SSD you don't really want to be using them for giant file downloads which can take advantage of it.
Finally, WiFi really can't deliver 1gig or anything close to it. I often drop back to 2.4GHz WiFi in some areas of my apartment and that is by far the biggest drawback.
So really, you only get 1gig or anything close when you're on a very fast server or protocol, downloading to an SSD on ethernet.
- ethbro 11y agoMy freshman year of college was at a university with 1gb fiber connections to the dorm rooms. Naturally, this meant there were DirectConnect servers all over campus with a variety of files. Most servers had their motd set to "Please download media and watch locally," as there was enough bandwidth to direct-play video files over the network. Unfortunately, there was not enough hard drive bandwidth to service multiple requests for this simultaneously (this was before the SSD revolution). Definitely a moment of "Hunh. Never expected to run into that bottleneck."
- 6t6t6 11y agoI have 2Gbps in Tokyo. Connected by gigabit Ethernet to the router I consistently get over 500Mbps symmetric, but with the wifi i never get over 50/20Mbps. Probably because every single 2.4 channel is occupied by several networks.