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Gigabit isn’t that special these days, normal consumer gear gets you close enough. Trust me, once you get a faster connection you definitely won’t want to go b

Gigabit isn’t that special these days, normal consumer gear gets you close enough. Trust me, once you get a faster connection you definitely won’t want to go back to 100. It’s kind of like high DPI displays.

toast0 7y ago
> Trust me, once you get a faster connection you definitely won’t want to go back to 100. I had a 1G connection, but my most often used desktop would often switch to 100M, and it would take me weeks to notice. I would absolutely get a 1G connection again if it were reasonable, but a solid 100M is fine for everything other than really large up/downloads. Symmetric 10, with decent latency isn't that bad either. > It’s kind of like high DPI displays. Yeah, I've had those too, and I don't find them worth it. A slightly higher than 'normal' dpi, that I can run at 1:1 was pretty nice until my eyes got older.
- mijamo 7y ago
  Symetric 10 does not even allow for streaming in good quality. 100 is good most of the time but then happens the moment you need some big chunk of data (ex: a game of 150 GB) and then you need to wait quite a bit. Also, if you have a larger household with everybody streaming and playing games, 100Mbits can saturate pretty quickly. As I don't have kids, 100Mbits is mostly OK for me but occasionnaly I wish I had more. Like when I moved my photo backup, 500GB to upload was a pain at 100Mbit/s, but obviously this is not something I need to do everyday.
  - toast0 7y ago
    I had a high quality 6M for a long time, and streaming was fine; much nicer (less buffering) when I got a bigger pipe though, although the bigger pipe was less consistent
- rayiner 7y ago
  I also have a gig connection and a bad connection to a patch panel took out one of the twisted pairs and caused the link to downgrade to 100 base TX. Took me weeks to notice.

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Gigabit isn’t that special these days, normal consumer gear gets you close enough. Trust me, once you get a faster connection you definitely won’t want to go b

by dawnerd 7y ago

toast0 7y ago
> Trust me, once you get a faster connection you definitely won’t want to go back to 100. I had a 1G connection, but my most often used desktop would often switch to 100M, and it would take me weeks to notice. I would absolutely get a 1G connection again if it were reasonable, but a solid 100M is fine for everything other than really large up/downloads. Symmetric 10, with decent latency isn't that bad either. > It’s kind of like high DPI displays. Yeah, I've had those too, and I don't find them worth it. A slightly higher than 'normal' dpi, that I can run at 1:1 was pretty nice until my eyes got older.
- mijamo 7y ago
  Symetric 10 does not even allow for streaming in good quality. 100 is good most of the time but then happens the moment you need some big chunk of data (ex: a game of 150 GB) and then you need to wait quite a bit. Also, if you have a larger household with everybody streaming and playing games, 100Mbits can saturate pretty quickly. As I don't have kids, 100Mbits is mostly OK for me but occasionnaly I wish I had more. Like when I moved my photo backup, 500GB to upload was a pain at 100Mbit/s, but obviously this is not something I need to do everyday.
  - toast0 7y ago
    I had a high quality 6M for a long time, and streaming was fine; much nicer (less buffering) when I got a bigger pipe though, although the bigger pipe was less consistent
- rayiner 7y ago
  I also have a gig connection and a bad connection to a patch panel took out one of the twisted pairs and caused the link to downgrade to 100 base TX. Took me weeks to notice.