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You can't really call it real world speeds when latency is less than a millisecond, then you've hardly even exited the internal backbone of your ISP. Generally
by vegardx 12y ago
You can't really call it real world speeds when latency is less than a millisecond, then you've hardly even exited the internal backbone of your ISP. Generally when accessing things abroad or somewhat far away the throughput will drop to 150-500Mb/s. So, not bad at all, but don't expect those speeds everywhere.
On a side note, my current ISP just started rolling out 10Gb/s here. The geek in me really wants to get it, but I'm having a real hard time even making up excuses for the added cost, around $700, compared to $40 for gigabit.
- blubblub 12y ago> Generally when accessing things abroad or somewhat far away the throughput will drop to 150-500Mb/s. Isn't that usually caused by TCP and bandwith-delay product and not the connection itself?
- vegardx 12y agoA combination of that and congestion on transit providers, I think. The biggest issue with a really fast connection is that your wireless becomes the bottleneck, even if you buy really expensive gear.
- CyberDildonics 12y agowireless and fiber? that's like putting ice cubes in wine
- vegardx 12y agoSure is, but it's kind of impractical to always have a wire connected to your laptop. Sort of defeats the purpose of a portable computer.
- gonzo 12y ago> You can't really call it real world speeds when latency is less than a millisecond I have a Grande 1Gbps connection here in Austin (Google has not yet built out my neighborhood), and it's around 3.5ms RTT to work over the IPsec VPN (pfSense on both ends). 9 hops in-between, and yes, I leave one ISP and enter another.
- batbomb 12y agoof course, it could be rounding up if the server is more than 50 miles away. 1ms is about 100 miles at 68% the speed of light. Physics is a bitch.