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What I do enjoy is that rsync.net is using the same ISP so I can max out my upload to them.
Consider me drooling. I'm currently on 1000/50 cable internet, which is already quite nice. Telekom is laying fibre but it's not clear yet whether or not they will stop short of this house. Also i suspect it will be a while before they offer better than 1000/500 service.
Not convinced by the use case section. Very few servers will allow you a full 25gbit download, let alone anything more than a 1gbit (and often less). And if you own the server on the other end, that sort of bandwidth comes at a cost. I think beyond 1gbit, the benefit become super marginal and the hardware expensive.
Not convinced by the use case section. Very few servers will allow you a full 25gbit download, let alone anything more than a 1gbit (and often less). And if you own the server on the other end, that sort of bandwidth comes at a cost. I think beyond 1gbit, the benefit become super marginal and the hardware expensive.
Isn’t a lot of content like YouTube served from edge devices at your ISP, which is what you’re connected to at 25?
> fiber7 costs only 65 CHF per month and comes with a symmetric 1 Gbit/s connection. 65 CHF = US $67.89
My speeds are advertised as 1Gbits down and 100Mbits up. On speed tests, I get much higher downloads (~1.5Gbits per second). This might be because it's not capped properly, and I live in a place that they're still building houses in (I imagine that our "box" is not yet saturated).
However, I rarely max that speed out in any download. Video games on Steam max out at maybe 65 megabytes per second. wget commands go from between 10 megabytes per second to maybe 40 max.
The thing is, I know that the speed tests are legit, because I can do several of these things at once and none of them lose any speed.
25 Gb/s to the internet providers speedtest server is kinda cute. But most CDN's limit is much, much lower.
My experience with fast internet has been that most CDNs are just not routed well and are quite slow (especially Microsoft). Only a few good ones allow me to saturate my Gbit internet. Not sure what I would do with 25 Gbit though. What I do enjoy is that rsync.net is using the same ISP so I can max out my upload to them.
On behalf of all tech-minded Americans, I would like to say... I hate you. I just got a notice in the mail that my ISP is "upgrading" their network so now I can pay $200 USD/month to get a whopping 2gbps, which I actually thought was pretty amazing until I read your post. So, thanks. In all seriousness, congrats! You made a good case for why one would need that much bandwidth. Also, we need to catch up here. :)
Until recently I paid $35 per month for a 300 Mbps line because I couldn’t justify the jump to 1 Gbps.
Then I had to upload some local Hyper-V servers to AWS to convert them to AMIs and figured what the heck I’d upgrade the line.
I would have no interest in upgrading beyond 1 Gbps right now though. There are too many infrastructure components that need to be upgraded to attain that and I don’t have a use case for it.