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Maybe I'm just behind the times, but I can't think of anything I'd do that would saturate my 20Mbps link, other than maybe downloading an iso or something. I'm

Maybe I'm just behind the times, but I can't think of anything I'd do that would saturate my 20Mbps link, other than maybe downloading an iso or something. I'm using 1 und 1's ultra cheap plan, and browsing works fine, streaming works fine, video conferencing works fine, remote desktops work fine. I work remote, and only once have I experienced an outage.

ses1984 7y ago
A single 4k Netflix stream is up to 25mbps.
Balero 7y ago
I think 20Mbps is ok if you are the only user (I would rather 30 at least). But if you live with other heavy internet users it can get congested easily. Someone streaming something, someone playing games, someone downloading something, this all adds up quickly and it starts to be noticeable.
jotm 7y ago
I'm afraid to ask... Your upload speed is 3Mbps or something? :D Uploading anything took freaking ages on DSL, I even used mobile data to do it, it's an important part of life today.
rjsw 7y ago
I'm happy with 40Mbps DSL, I could get 80Mbps for a bit more. Would rather investment went into getting more areas up to a reasonable speed.
Havoc 7y ago
One easy usage case - downloading steam games. Those things are now frequently >60gigs so speed can be the difference between try my new game tonight or only get a chance to play tomorrow after work. Silly example I know but real.
Nimitz14 7y ago
Transferring data to and from the cloud.
- lucb1e 7y ago
  Not necessarily the cloud, it can also be your own server. That's my problem as a Dutchman in Germany. Server still in NL, hosted at my parents', because it would be impossible here to host at home without registering a company (volatile IP, forced to change very 24 hours, only business connections get a static IP). Right now I'm attempting an off-site backup a second time, which will take a week or so, just like last time. Due to the interrupts and resumptions every 24h, there are lots of unused pack files, which you can prune, but then the system ran out of RAM during pruning and the backup doesn't appear recoverable. The 4.5MiB/s upload I'm getting is the fastest possible connection in the centre of a city of about 50k people. I checked what it would cost to have fiber installed, and I'm not even sure it would be worth it for a company, let alone for a private person. It's cheaper to hire a moving company and go somewhere else. In the village of 1k people that my parents live in, I can get symmetric 500mbps since 2012 or something, they give a static IP, a /48 IPv6 range, reverse DNS...
00deadbeef 7y ago
> I can't think of anything I'd do that would saturate my 20Mbps link Have children

ses1984 7y ago

A single 4k Netflix stream is up to 25mbps.

Balero 7y ago

I think 20Mbps is ok if you are the only user (I would rather 30 at least). But if you live with other heavy internet users it can get congested easily. Someone streaming something, someone playing games, someone downloading something, this all adds up quickly and it starts to be noticeable.

jotm 7y ago

I'm afraid to ask... Your upload speed is 3Mbps or something? :D Uploading anything took freaking ages on DSL, I even used mobile data to do it, it's an important part of life today.

rjsw 7y ago

I'm happy with 40Mbps DSL, I could get 80Mbps for a bit more. Would rather investment went into getting more areas up to a reasonable speed.

Havoc 7y ago

One easy usage case - downloading steam games. Those things are now frequently >60gigs so speed can be the difference between try my new game tonight or only get a chance to play tomorrow after work. Silly example I know but real.

Nimitz14 7y ago

Transferring data to and from the cloud.

lucb1e 7y ago
Not necessarily the cloud, it can also be your own server. That's my problem as a Dutchman in Germany. Server still in NL, hosted at my parents', because it would be impossible here to host at home without registering a company (volatile IP, forced to change very 24 hours, only business connections get a static IP). Right now I'm attempting an off-site backup a second time, which will take a week or so, just like last time. Due to the interrupts and resumptions every 24h, there are lots of unused pack files, which you can prune, but then the system ran out of RAM during pruning and the backup doesn't appear recoverable. The 4.5MiB/s upload I'm getting is the fastest possible connection in the centre of a city of about 50k people. I checked what it would cost to have fiber installed, and I'm not even sure it would be worth it for a company, let alone for a private person. It's cheaper to hire a moving company and go somewhere else. In the village of 1k people that my parents live in, I can get symmetric 500mbps since 2012 or something, they give a static IP, a /48 IPv6 range, reverse DNS...

00deadbeef 7y ago

> I can't think of anything I'd do that would saturate my 20Mbps link Have children