I find it exceedingly hard to fill my 85mbit connection without using some kind of synthetic bandwidth test. Obviously it's easy to do if you're aggregating eno

I find it exceedingly hard to fill my 85mbit connection without using some kind of synthetic bandwidth test. Obviously it's easy to do if you're aggregating enough people's usage (like at an office) but for a single user it's tough. Single stream downloads rarely if ever get that high, my nntp provider seems to not be able to do it even with 20 connections but that could be the fault of the nas thats decoding the binaries. Pretty much the only time one task fills it is when im dumping from my colo that doesn't have a bunch of other streams to fair share with. It's not even that easy to get 1gb traffic to flow over the lan, though of course its pretty easy to get 70%-80% or so. To get sustained gigabit it pretty much has to be an ssd or array on both sides. And this is from the perspective of someone that runs three 3x1gb port channel bonds at home between a multi-tier san and a few virtualization hosts. I could upgrade my home internet from 85 to 150 or 300 but i have no desire to - it'd pretty much be impossible to tell the difference 99% of the time. Will this always be the case? Nope. 10 years ago it was hard to push 100mbit datacenter to datacenter. As computers & io speeds catch up and content targets higher speeds something like 1gb at the home will become much more useful. But I sure wouldn't move to kansas city just get 1gb right now.