• ramble81@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    *20Gbps to your home from their node.

    However, you never upgraded your computer beyond a 1Gbps network connection, the cross connect down the line is limited to less than 10Gbps, the server you want to access throttles you to 100Mbps max, you have 100+ ms ping times.

    Unless you have 20+ devices in your house all trying to pull 1Gbps simultaneously, it’s a bit of a marketing stunt. There may be some edge cases, but even 4K streaming is only 25-50Mbps, so you could run 5 devices and be fine.

    What I’d love to see is guaranteed latency and QoS settings that ensure I’ll never be throttled during any period rather than more bandwidth.

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      11 months ago

      Usenet can fill a 10gig line if you have a good enough computer. Maybe I want that 4k remux rip in less than 2 minutes…

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      11 months ago

      Yeah most people won’t notice much of a difference past 1gbps for now. A lot of the infrastructure hasn’t caught up yet and a lot of people don’t even have fast enough WIFI routers yet.

      I upgraded from something like 200mbps to 1gbps a while back in my last place and I verified I had 1gbps but my download speeds even directly over ethernet were not much if at all faster from the sorts of places I typically download from. Like you said a lot of sites throttle.