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I think you are making my point. How does 1 Mbps or 5 Mbps compare to say, a 1 Gbps connection you can have with a server colocated or rented from a hosting com
by IgorPartola 12y ago
I think you are making my point. How does 1 Mbps or 5 Mbps compare to say, a 1 Gbps connection you can have with a server colocated or rented from a hosting company? Moreover, what's the benefit?
- walterbell 12y ago1Mbs is eight times faster than 128Kbps, your original characterization of residential uplink speed. Comparing 1Gbps and 1Mbps is more about bandwidth than latency, since the physical distance between server nodes will on average be larger than the physical distance between local neighbors. One benefit is ownership decentralization of the serving endpoint, which helps in some scenarios (more difficult to censor) and hurts in other scenarios (more difficult to sue).
- dragonwriter 12y ago> 1Mbs is eight times faster than 128Kbps Actually, 8 times as fast, or 7 times faster. Unless 128Kbps is 1 times faster than 128Kbps.
- walterbell 12y agoThanks :)
- IgorPartola 12y agoIn either case, would you consider hosting something like Wikipedia on a 1 Mbps connection? Besides, you will be sharing that connection with everything else your neighbor does: both CPU and link-wise. "Oops, Bob's getting on Skype again. Better go make some tea, while this page loads. Too bad the original server this came from has a 1 Gbps connection and crazy redundancy. I sure am happy I can get this page from Bob's 6 year old router running at 200 MHz." What problem is this solution supposed to solve? Bandwidth for the type of content you can actually mirror like this is my a problem and hasn't been for a decade.