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I honestly haven't cared about bandwidth since I hit 50mbps. Having 300mbps, it's fun when I download a new Steam game to watch my hard disk become the bottlene
by _bxg1 6y ago
I honestly haven't cared about bandwidth since I hit 50mbps. Having 300mbps, it's fun when I download a new Steam game to watch my hard disk become the bottleneck. But that's about all I get out of it.
- nikisweeting 6y agoI regularly use my full 500mbps between torrents, steam, backing up my VPS servers to local NAS, and my whole family backing up to my NAS over the internet from their 100mbps connections. I'll admit I am the exception, but with a decent ZFS pool you can easily saturate 500mbps with remote backups alone. I have a bunch of cheap SSDs in a mirror config and get about 2000MB/s write on a good day, so the bottleneck is very solidly on the network side.
- jotm 6y agoHow do they backup to NAS using the Internet connection? Is it not local?
- nikisweeting 6y agoTime Machine over VPN (Tailscale/Wireguard), works great. Requires fast ping and good bandwidth though, which we have (<10ms rtt from NYC to MTL! still blows my mind). Family -> NAS (using Time Machine) NAS -> Backblaze B2 (using Duplicati)
- theandrewbailey 6y ago300mbps = 37.5MB/s. That's a pretty slow hard drive.
- _bxg1 6y ago¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it's a 2TB spinning disk that's a few years old. Been meaning to upgrade to an SSD for this exact reason.
- jotm 6y agoYeah Steam and torrents are about the only thing using all the bandwidth. Google Drive (free) rarely gets to even 50Mbps. But for a multi person household, gigabit fiber is great