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The biggest gigabit fiber selling point for me is having a symmetric connection. The "gigabit" cable internet available in my area is 960/30, and as a big self-
by kayson 6y ago
The biggest gigabit fiber selling point for me is having a symmetric connection. The "gigabit" cable internet available in my area is 960/30, and as a big self-hoster, that's not close to enough upload. I run nextcloud, media streaming, backups, etc for about 10 people, and my connection is always maxed out. I'm starting to move backups to local RPi's at my parent's/in-law's to save some bandwidth, but it makes management a bigger pain. I would love to have gigabit fiber, or even 100Mbps upload...
- wtallis 6y ago> The "gigabit" cable internet available in my area is 960/30, and as a big self-hoster, that's not close to enough upload. More importantly, 30Mbps is barely enough to ACK a 1Gbps stream of packets.
- musicale 6y agoAs noted above, DOCSIS 4 supports "full" duplex which allows 10Gb/s down and 6Gb/s up, partially by sharing the same channels for upload and download.
- sonotmyname 6y agoThat really doesn't help anyone when ISPs aren't offering 6Gb up. Theory and specs are good, but the reality is that it appears Cable providers have built their networks to be heavily asymmetric.