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Damn, that's impressive. Technically I could get 2Gbps with the two providers running their own fiber in the neighborhood. But I don't even fully use one gigabi

by jotm 4y ago

Damn, that's impressive. Technically I could get 2Gbps with the two providers running their own fiber in the neighborhood. But I don't even fully use one gigabit connection, running a torrent client is about the only thing that can do it. Any ideas welcome :D Curious thing, the ISPs don't oversell even though they easily could. I get exactly what I pay for, speed is never below ~940Mbps (down or up), and uptime has been stellar.

lostcolony 4y ago
Yeah; there really aren't any great use cases I can think of for more than 1 gbps to the home at the moment. A 4k stream runs ~25 mbps, a 100 GB game download will tend to cap out before saturating the connection and still take ~15 minutes (hardly a wasted evening if you have to wait for it). At 2 Gbps, if you actually saturated the connection downloading something, you'd better have an SDD, since you'll be downloading faster than a HDD can write. More bandwidth may be -nice-, for the few services that can take advantage of it (I'm not sure PSN, Steam, etc, even will), but it's hardly a game changer for home use. Even the backup/transfer cases he lists I'd hope are transferring diffs, which would likely make the speed increase unnoticeable. But, of course, I'd still love 25 gbps fiber to the home just because.
- dale_glass 4y ago
  How about remote work? Back when covid19 started, we all went home, the office closed, and then we had a server failure. And I spent multiple days downloading stuff to back it up before reinstalling the machine, because there was not enough spare storage inside the office. If you work with VM disk images even 1 Gbps starts feeling a tad sluggish.
  - lostcolony 4y ago
    What about remote work? Why the heck are you downloading stuff to hardware located -at your house-, and not a datacenter, another office, the cloud (someone else's datacenter :P), etc? I work with VMs. Disk images stay in the datacenter, and occasionally get sent between datacenters. They don't live at my house.

by jotm 4y ago

lostcolony 4y ago

Yeah; there really aren't any great use cases I can think of for more than 1 gbps to the home at the moment. A 4k stream runs ~25 mbps, a 100 GB game download will tend to cap out before saturating the connection and still take ~15 minutes (hardly a wasted evening if you have to wait for it). At 2 Gbps, if you actually saturated the connection downloading something, you'd better have an SDD, since you'll be downloading faster than a HDD can write. More bandwidth may be -nice-, for the few services that can take advantage of it (I'm not sure PSN, Steam, etc, even will), but it's hardly a game changer for home use. Even the backup/transfer cases he lists I'd hope are transferring diffs, which would likely make the speed increase unnoticeable. But, of course, I'd still love 25 gbps fiber to the home just because.

dale_glass 4y ago
How about remote work? Back when covid19 started, we all went home, the office closed, and then we had a server failure. And I spent multiple days downloading stuff to back it up before reinstalling the machine, because there was not enough spare storage inside the office. If you work with VM disk images even 1 Gbps starts feeling a tad sluggish.
- lostcolony 4y ago
  What about remote work? Why the heck are you downloading stuff to hardware located -at your house-, and not a datacenter, another office, the cloud (someone else's datacenter :P), etc? I work with VMs. Disk images stay in the datacenter, and occasionally get sent between datacenters. They don't live at my house.