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Sure I was talking for the home... most people can't afford $20.000 routers or fiber. I'm prepared to say that unless they can cram 10Gb/s into existing fiber

by bullen 6y ago

Sure I was talking for the home... most people can't afford $20.000 routers or fiber. I'm prepared to say that unless they can cram 10Gb/s into existing fiber (without increasing fixed- or energy- costs too much) we're stuck at 1Gb/s... forever!

CyberDildonics 6y ago
Anyone with $40 USD can buy a used 10gb ethernet card and wire it with cat6. I don't know why you think there is some 'limit of thermodynamics' or that someone needs to 'invent new physics'. Every computer for 15 years has come with a 1gb ethernet port. 2.5gb usb ethernet dongles are $30 USD and can be hooked into a $35 rasberry pi. A 2.5gb switch is around $120. I don't know where you got these ideas, but they wouldn't have made sense two decades ago, let alone today.
- bullen 6y ago
  You again? Are you stalking me? Do you know how bad your username is? How hard would it be for me to get you banned? You don't want to see that hard worked 2000+ karma go up in smoke! Because then you cannot downvote.
  - CyberDildonics 6y ago
    If we take a step back, you have said that "we will be on 1gb ethernet forever" "because of the physical limits and energy" and that people will need to "invent new physics they are only executable in an environment of energy abundance". I then point out that 2.5gb pcie cards cost $20, usb dongles cost $30 and a switch costs $120 (with everything using the power of a few light bulbs at most). Instead of confronting this or saying something that makes sense, you say that I'm stalking you, call my user name 'bad', then say that you are going to 'get me banned'. Did I miss anything?
fulafel 6y ago
Fiber cabling is as cheap as copper. But yep 10/25/40 gbe gear is cheaper. Though many have sub 1g internet connectivity and no infra at home and this kind of connectivity is more interesting at a colo.
- bullen 6y ago
  My whole point is that home hosting of servers is the last revolution and I think I can leverage my MMO partly from two home 1Gb/s fibers! You need two for 100% read uptime if one fiber goes down... Saving on the most costly: CPU, storage and bandwidth costs... I still need big machines in central euro, iowa, asia but then those would only be for latency sensitive real-time networking. Patch data, the async. database and even two world instances can be hosted at home!

by bullen 6y ago

CyberDildonics 6y ago

Anyone with $40 USD can buy a used 10gb ethernet card and wire it with cat6. I don't know why you think there is some 'limit of thermodynamics' or that someone needs to 'invent new physics'. Every computer for 15 years has come with a 1gb ethernet port. 2.5gb usb ethernet dongles are $30 USD and can be hooked into a $35 rasberry pi. A 2.5gb switch is around $120. I don't know where you got these ideas, but they wouldn't have made sense two decades ago, let alone today.

bullen 6y ago
You again? Are you stalking me? Do you know how bad your username is? How hard would it be for me to get you banned? You don't want to see that hard worked 2000+ karma go up in smoke! Because then you cannot downvote.
- CyberDildonics 6y ago
  If we take a step back, you have said that "we will be on 1gb ethernet forever" "because of the physical limits and energy" and that people will need to "invent new physics they are only executable in an environment of energy abundance". I then point out that 2.5gb pcie cards cost $20, usb dongles cost $30 and a switch costs $120 (with everything using the power of a few light bulbs at most). Instead of confronting this or saying something that makes sense, you say that I'm stalking you, call my user name 'bad', then say that you are going to 'get me banned'. Did I miss anything?

fulafel 6y ago

Fiber cabling is as cheap as copper. But yep 10/25/40 gbe gear is cheaper. Though many have sub 1g internet connectivity and no infra at home and this kind of connectivity is more interesting at a colo.

bullen 6y ago
My whole point is that home hosting of servers is the last revolution and I think I can leverage my MMO partly from two home 1Gb/s fibers! You need two for 100% read uptime if one fiber goes down... Saving on the most costly: CPU, storage and bandwidth costs... I still need big machines in central euro, iowa, asia but then those would only be for latency sensitive real-time networking. Patch data, the async. database and even two world instances can be hosted at home!