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> In 2023, there are very few uses for home users that will exceed what a 1G connection can provide Video games are getting bigger all the time. The latest Cal
by Aaargh20318 3y ago
> In 2023, there are very few uses for home users that will exceed what a 1G connection can provide
Video games are getting bigger all the time. The latest Call of Duty apparently is 200GB. On 1gbit you are limited to 125MB/s downloads (assuming zero overhead) that's almost a half an hour to download. PCIe4 SSD's are capable of write speeds of about 7GB/s and PCIe5 SSD's are just hitting the market with even faster speeds. At 10Gbit you can download that game in less than 3 minutes. In neither case are you even approaching the speed at which your PC can store that data.
When PCIe5 SSD's go mainstream a home PC user would even be able to saturate a 100Gbit connection.
- stephenr 3y agoPlease, I implore you, to read the line you quoted again, and then perhaps pull out the old Oxford English, and look up what "very few" means. I'll be generous and give you a hint: it doesn't mean none. But your example also has great relevance to the "familiar" sentence in my original comment which was: > 2.5G is rapidly approaching, if not already past the point, for a lot of people where a single machine will never use all of that capacity, and the advantage of higher total bandwidth is to support multiple people doing high bandwidth tasks. I italicised the part that I knew people would somehow ignore in my original comment and I've done it again, because obviously once wasn't enough. Here, let me pull out the important words yet again just to make it really clear: > for a lot of people