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I don't think I need Gb internet. I recently upgraded from 30Mb to 75Mb. I don't really notice a big difference. Very little I did before needed a full 30 Mb c

by mabbo 7y ago

I don't think I need Gb internet. I recently upgraded from 30Mb to 75Mb. I don't really notice a big difference. Very little I did before needed a full 30 Mb connection. Is Netflix higher quality now? I can't tell. I doubt I'd upgrade again anytime soon. I've reached a point where my internet speed's bits per second has exceeded my ability to consume data.

trilila 7y ago
Trust me, once you get a 1Gbps network connection, you will love it. It's not that Netflix would be faster, but watching wget or curl reach massive speeds is just awesome :-)
- mabbo 7y ago
  > watching wget or curl reach massive speeds is just awesome I don't get any joy out of that. I mean, yay, it's a big number. So what? My file still arrived in an instant. Whether it takes 1 second or 0.1 seconds is of no difference to how my life goes. If I were a heavy bittorrent user, maybe that would help? But most of the content I want is on legal means now, Netflix and Prime TV. And even if I wanted to pirate something, at 75Mb I can get it fast enough.
  - trilila 7y ago
    Other than the joy, Gbps is useful for households with more than one person streaming netflix or other services at the same time, or slower game update downloads. For devs, this is useful when pulling docker images or os images.
  - colek42 7y ago
    I work from home and pull a ton of docker containers. I currently have 500/50 but would pay for as much as they would give me.
JustSomeNobody 7y ago
We have 60Mb and most of the time that's just plenty. I would like a little faster speeds when I download a new Linux image or something, but even then, it only takes a few minutes.
Aaargh20318 7y ago
It's a chicken/egg problem. No one is going to develop mass-market services that require users to have a gbit internet hookup if there are hardly any potential customers. Which leads people to think they don't need gbit internet because there is nothing that requires that kind of speed. Just like there was no need for most people to have >10Mbit internet without the likes of Netflix or Youtube existing, and no way for those sites to survive if everyone is using a 56k modem.
- mabbo 7y ago
  There's a limit though, is what I'm saying. My hearing and vision are getting worse, not better, as I get older and there's diminishing returns on increased bandwidth in terms of utility. Give me streaming audio at the absolute quality limits at 8Mb, 32Mb, 80Mb- I won't be able to hear a difference. My internet bandwidth is beyond my ears capabilities. I've seen 4K and 8K TVs recently- I can't tell the difference. (I'm far more interested in contrast ratios, frankly). If I can stream video at 4K, my bandwidth will have exceeded my eyes capabilities. Why would I want to pay more for 8K hardware and bandwidth if I get nothing other than smug satisfaction? At a certain point, there isn't any benefit to each human to having more bandwidth. And me? I think I've reached my limit at only 75Mb. 1Gb would be neat, but what for?
  - icebraining 7y ago
    For streaming VR? I agree, I was upgraded from 30Mbps to 60Mbps and I really couldn't care less. The annoying bottleneck is on the other side, which regularly caps to 10Mbps or less. 1Gbps sounds great for an office, though; kinda sick of having shared 50Mbps connections where some stream HD videos just to listen to music.
    - lonelappde 7y ago
      Right, the use case for 10x bandwidth is so you can discard 90% of the download so you don't have to decide even 1second on advance which part you want to keep.
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katet 7y ago
I concur with the sibling comments. I had 30Mbps and it was "good enough", but I know have gigabit at home and its reached the point where its actually quicker for me to work from home when dealing with large production database dumps and trial-and-error Docker pull and build than it is to work at the office. Its simply a case of when you have it, you find ways to use it, but boy is it one of the small pleasures in life to do a dist-upgrade in about 15 minutes.
tialaramex 7y ago
Netflix probably didn't change. Even if you pay extra for their Ultra HD mode that will fit down 30Mbps without trouble. If you have kids this upgrade should mean now your family can watch 3-4 videos at once even in Ultra HD.

by mabbo 7y ago

trilila 7y ago

Trust me, once you get a 1Gbps network connection, you will love it. It's not that Netflix would be faster, but watching wget or curl reach massive speeds is just awesome :-)

mabbo 7y ago
> watching wget or curl reach massive speeds is just awesome I don't get any joy out of that. I mean, yay, it's a big number. So what? My file still arrived in an instant. Whether it takes 1 second or 0.1 seconds is of no difference to how my life goes. If I were a heavy bittorrent user, maybe that would help? But most of the content I want is on legal means now, Netflix and Prime TV. And even if I wanted to pirate something, at 75Mb I can get it fast enough.
- trilila 7y ago
  Other than the joy, Gbps is useful for households with more than one person streaming netflix or other services at the same time, or slower game update downloads. For devs, this is useful when pulling docker images or os images.
- colek42 7y ago
  I work from home and pull a ton of docker containers. I currently have 500/50 but would pay for as much as they would give me.

JustSomeNobody 7y ago

We have 60Mb and most of the time that's just plenty. I would like a little faster speeds when I download a new Linux image or something, but even then, it only takes a few minutes.

Aaargh20318 7y ago

It's a chicken/egg problem. No one is going to develop mass-market services that require users to have a gbit internet hookup if there are hardly any potential customers. Which leads people to think they don't need gbit internet because there is nothing that requires that kind of speed. Just like there was no need for most people to have >10Mbit internet without the likes of Netflix or Youtube existing, and no way for those sites to survive if everyone is using a 56k modem.

mabbo 7y ago
There's a limit though, is what I'm saying. My hearing and vision are getting worse, not better, as I get older and there's diminishing returns on increased bandwidth in terms of utility. Give me streaming audio at the absolute quality limits at 8Mb, 32Mb, 80Mb- I won't be able to hear a difference. My internet bandwidth is beyond my ears capabilities. I've seen 4K and 8K TVs recently- I can't tell the difference. (I'm far more interested in contrast ratios, frankly). If I can stream video at 4K, my bandwidth will have exceeded my eyes capabilities. Why would I want to pay more for 8K hardware and bandwidth if I get nothing other than smug satisfaction? At a certain point, there isn't any benefit to each human to having more bandwidth. And me? I think I've reached my limit at only 75Mb. 1Gb would be neat, but what for?
- icebraining 7y ago
  For streaming VR? I agree, I was upgraded from 30Mbps to 60Mbps and I really couldn't care less. The annoying bottleneck is on the other side, which regularly caps to 10Mbps or less. 1Gbps sounds great for an office, though; kinda sick of having shared 50Mbps connections where some stream HD videos just to listen to music.
  - lonelappde 7y ago
    Right, the use case for 10x bandwidth is so you can discard 90% of the download so you don't have to decide even 1second on advance which part you want to keep.
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katet 7y ago

I concur with the sibling comments. I had 30Mbps and it was "good enough", but I know have gigabit at home and its reached the point where its actually quicker for me to work from home when dealing with large production database dumps and trial-and-error Docker pull and build than it is to work at the office. Its simply a case of when you have it, you find ways to use it, but boy is it one of the small pleasures in life to do a dist-upgrade in about 15 minutes.

tialaramex 7y ago

Netflix probably didn't change. Even if you pay extra for their Ultra HD mode that will fit down 30Mbps without trouble. If you have kids this upgrade should mean now your family can watch 3-4 videos at once even in Ultra HD.