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There are no Internet providers in Canada that do more than 1.5Gbps though (Ball Canada claims to have 1.5Gbps down) and even that is mostly just claimed and ra
by bhouston 6y ago
There are no Internet providers in Canada that do more than 1.5Gbps though (Ball Canada claims to have 1.5Gbps down) and even that is mostly just claimed and rarely delivered. These days my compute workloads are mostly in the cloud and all my files are there as well. Thus local speeds do not matter much if the Internet can not also feed them.
I guess this matters for data centres, but primarily my data centres are run by AWS and GCP, so I do not buy this hardware myself.
- hackcasual 6y agoWould be really cool to have all my local systems have little local disk, but instead share a NAS. But still a very niche use case
- 1ncorrect 6y agoNot being the bottleneck doesn’t make increased throughput completely superfluous. The faster you can communicate across a channel, the quicker you can shut up and get to idle, saving power on both transmission and policing of resource contention. You also have more time to handle locally scoped retries and error correction.
- 908B64B197 6y agoGoogle Fiber can do 2Gbps.
- wmf 6y agoSpeaking of Canada, Linus "Tech Tips" Sebastian mentioned this very argument in a recent video where he was installing 100G and 25G in his office for workgroup video editing. Not everything is in the cloud yet.