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Ziply Fiber is offering 50 gbps home internet connections in some US locations. You cannot utilize that type of speed with a Mac Mini. Even the modest 8-10gbp
by hx8 5mo ago
Ziply Fiber is offering 50 gbps home internet connections in some US locations. You cannot utilize that type of speed with a Mac Mini. Even the modest 8-10gbps connections offered by T-Mobile and Google probably require more.
- wlesieutre 5mo agoDoesn't really answer the question though, why would someone be trying to utilize that much bandwidth out of their house? Is this for people trying to start the next netflix out of their garage before they have any money to put the servers in a colo?
- Diti 5mo agoVPNs. If you have a NAS and require high-speed access from/to your home files (dumping your Apple ProRes RAW rushes off your external SSD, so you can keep shooting your video, for instance), that kind of bandwidth cements your income.
- wlesieutre 5mo agoYou and 49 other people all simultaneously working from locations with gigabit uplinks
- zrm 5mo ago> You cannot utilize that type of speed with a Mac Mini. Mostly because the base Mini has Thunderbolt 4 which maxes out at 40Gbps. Anything with a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot will take a 100Gbps NIC. 100Gbps is around 10GBps (8 bits per byte plus encapsulation overhead). Desktop CPUs can do AES-GCM at 2.5GBps+ per core and have up to 16 cores and around 50GBps of memory bandwidth (dual channel DDR4-3200), so the NIC still seems like the bottleneck.