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You have access to residential internet with 10Gbps up and down? I didn't even know that was a thing.
by xboxnolifes 4y ago
You have access to residential internet with 10Gbps up and down? I didn't even know that was a thing.
- Youden 4y agoI've got 25/25Gbps here in Switzerland. I pay ~$65/month.
- pooper 4y agoCan you please elaborate on your experience with it? Previously, on HN I remember seeing this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31134534
- Youden 4y agoHonestly it's mostly a novelty for me, I did it for bragging rights and out of curiosity. 1Gbps to 10Gbps has some tangible benefits like downloading large games in a fraction of the time, or doing super fast backups. However when you have 25Gbps, you have a pipe twice as large as is common in standard hardware. You usually see yourself limited by 10Gbps peering links or by endpoints with only 10Gbps NICs. And of course 25Gbps is faster than most conventional storage, you need very high-end NVMe or RAID to keep up. If I'd have had to pay a bit extra every month, I probably wouldn't have done it. But since it was just the price of the hardware plus installation, I thought it was worth trying.
- geerlingguy 4y agoNot in the US :'(
- backspace_ 4y agoActually it is a thing in the us.
- cbozeman 4y agoI don't know why you're being downvoted... Utah has multiple 10 Gbps up / down providers ranging from $170 - $249.99. Chattanooga, Tennessee has EPB that does 10 Gbps up / down for $299.99. Lafayette, Louisiana has LUSFiber that does 10 Gbps up / down for $295.95.
- zbrozek 4y agoAt my house, thanks to Los Altos Hills Community Fiber. It's in the US. https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/b6f39b75-d71a-4d89-b0f5-9a9496b3bd56 https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/b6f39b75-d71a-4d89-b0f5-9...
- _huayra_ 4y agoDamn you've got 2 orders of magnitude on me with my bare-bones Comcast plan! What's this run you per month?
- mikeyouse 4y agoLos Altos Hills is one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country, filled with tech millionaires and billionaires.. whatever the price may be, it’s heavily subsidized by extremely rich people who became wealthy due to tech companies wanting it in the first place. On Zillow, the cheapest house there is $4M and will likely be purchased to be torn down, the most expensive property is $40M and looks like a boutique hotel. Not really fair to compare them to the normal town.
- zbrozek 4y agoWhen I moved in to my house the only available option was AT&T DSL at 18/1 mbps. Comcast quoted $210k to run cable despite everyone else on my street already having a connection. It took me a year, but I organized with a bunch of my neighbors on the two streets behind my house and we trenched to get ourselves connected. Being in a wealthy area is no guarantee of service. I currently pay $155/mo. It's symmetric 10 gbps. My router isn't grunty enough to deliver that.
- inferiorhuman 4y agoYeah in the US. I've got symmetric 10 Gbps fiber in Oakland, California.
- binkHN 4y agoProvided by who?
- inferiorhuman 4y agoSonic
- pottertheotter 4y agoA lot of Utah (areas that have UTOPIA Fiber) has had it since 2018. It’s still $200+ a month though.
- cbozeman 4y agoI would gladly pay $200 a month for that.
- bigyikes 4y agoSerious question: what do you want that much bandwidth for? I could upgrade from 100Mb/s to 1Gb/s but I haven’t because honestly can’t think of a use case for myself.
- orangepanda 4y agoI upgraded to 1Gbps a while back, mostly because the price was the same. Also though I don’t really need it. Then I realised I can now download AAA steam games in the time it takes to make a cup of tea. No need for a separate storage drive anymore.
- icedchai 4y agoI rarely need that much bandwidth, but it's convenient when available. Example: when I do an OS update. The lower latency and reliability of fiber is actually more important. DOCSIS / Cable networks are very flaky, subject to interference. There will be small periods of packet loss that literally come and go with the weather (or perhaps a neighbor messing around with their wiring.) 95% of consumers won't notice, but if I'm in the middle of uploading a docker image and my upstream bandwidth drops from 30 megabits to 3 megabits due to increased packet loss and TCP re-transmissions, I definitely will. I've had this happen before. Massive packet loss in the neighborhood. It took months to get it fixed.
- fomine3 4y agoI wonder is bufferbloat become more problem on extremely fast residential connection.