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I'm really unsure as to whether it's worth investing whatsoever in consumer grade fiber connections. My speeds are advertised as 1Gbits down and 100Mbits up. O
by explaingarlic 4y ago
I'm really unsure as to whether it's worth investing whatsoever in consumer grade fiber connections.
My speeds are advertised as 1Gbits down and 100Mbits up. On speed tests, I get much higher downloads (~1.5Gbits per second). This might be because it's not capped properly, and I live in a place that they're still building houses in (I imagine that our "box" is not yet saturated).
However, I rarely max that speed out in any download. Video games on Steam max out at maybe 65 megabytes per second. wget commands go from between 10 megabytes per second to maybe 40 max.
The thing is, I know that the speed tests are legit, because I can do several of these things at once and none of them lose any speed.
- k8sToGo 4y agoI think it has to do with the routing and peering. I can get full speed on Steam, Origin, but not from Microsoft, for example.
- msarchet 4y agoI have gotten 800+ downloading games onto my xbox
- explaingarlic 4y agoYeah, maybe. My connectivity feels pretty intermittent to some ASNs, but I don't know if that's what changes between a good peering connection and a bad one.
- selectodude 4y agoMicrosoft’s CDN is awful. I’m in Chicago so my fiber connection literally terminates at an Akamai and Cloudflare edge. Steam, Apple, et al I routinely pull 100+ megabytes per second. Microsoft, I’m lucky if I get a third of that.
- CraigJPerry 4y agoI think you can now put 800 gigabit per second today, via commercially available kit, down a single strand of fibre installed back in the early 1980s. Copper or radio connections just don’t seem like as worthwhile an investment to me. I’m not saying it makes sense to have an 800gbit connection to a residential property but from a longevity, cost per mile, use of less rare materials, reduced rf interference or whatever, fibre just seems a better proposition to me.
- theideaofcoffee 4y agoThe current commercial state-of-the-art is quite a bit higher, 25.6Tbps or thereabouts using a full 40 channel/color DWDM and 400g modules. But yes, copper or RF is IMO a non-starter for any new deployments.
- CraigJPerry 4y agoThat’s fantastically impressive
- Bluecobra 4y agoThat’s the beauty of single mode fiber, you can use the same pair for something as slow as 10 Mbps to 800 Gbps. Makes a lot more sense from a data center perspective too, since you can continue to reuse the existing cable plant and just need to upgrade your NICs, transceivers, and switches.