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I have symmetric 1gbps. It's not about what generates that much data. It's about things that become feasible. I remember when a decade ago I occasionally neede
by lawl 5y ago
I have symmetric 1gbps. It's not about what generates that much data. It's about things that become feasible.
I remember when a decade ago I occasionally needed to share large VM images with a customer. I'd set up my notebook to upload it over the weekend and hope the upload wouldn't abort. Occasionally remoting in from home to check it was still uploading.
Now a 50Gb VM image is absolutely nothing to me. I can let people pull that from me during a coffee break, instead of scheduling it around a weekend.
It's not that sharing a 50Gb image was impossible before. It's that I can do it so quickly now, that I can do things like these much more liberally and don't have to plan around them as much.
- topranks 5y agoThis is a relatively niche use. It’s unrealistic to expect mass-market household products to be engineered to support a small number of users with bespoke requirements.
- adriancr 5y agomass market is engineered this way with fiber and its great. All households benefit if you think about video uploads, backups, etc
- treis 5y ago1 GBPS is a lot of video though. Something like 10 streams of the highest quality and like 40-100 of really good quality.
- adriancr 5y agoIt means really fast docker push, VM uploads, backups, etc. It also means I can keep a ubuntu mirror, private docker repo, possibly IPFS node in the future, backup server, all at home. I also never have to worry about my work/uploads saturating connection and interfering with wife/kids connections. Growing up with 20KB/s I'd take the fastest connection I can, if I could update to 10Gb/s and more I would :)