My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

Post by voltagex_ » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 3:06 PM UTC

bfz wrote: post #18

cm2187 wrote: post #5

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.

Even where the ports are available, 25 Gbit from a single address is well into the realms of looking like attack traffic in a wide variety of scenarios. Past even 500 Mbit I'm way more interested in latency considerations than raw bandwidth, and practical matters like how to use that bandwidth from my laptop (good luck doing 500 mbit wireless reliably, never mind 25 Gbit!)

Post by rektide » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 3:08 PM UTC

atonse wrote: post #24

chrisseaton wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t a lot of content like YouTube served from edge devices at your ISP, which is what you’re connected to at 25?

But what’s the value there? Even 4K high quality video is much less than 100mbps

Post by explaingarlic » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 3:09 PM UTC

k8sToGo wrote: post #32

explaingarlic wrote: post #27

I'm really unsure as to whether it's worth investing whatsoever in consumer grade fiber connections. 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…

I think it has to do with the routing and peering. I can get full speed on Steam, Origin, but not from Microsoft, for example.

Post by lostcolony » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 3:11 PM UTC

jotm wrote: post #16

Damn, that's impressive. Technically I could get 2Gbps with the two providers running their own fiber in the neighborhood. But I don't even fully use one gigabit connection, running a torrent client is about the only thing that can do it. Any ideas welcome :D Curious thing, the ISPs don't oversell even though they easily could. I get exactly what I pay for, speed is never below ~940Mbps (down or up), and uptime has b…

Post by mrkstu » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 3:13 PM UTC

rektide wrote: post #33

atonse wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what’s the value there? Even 4K high quality video is much less than 100mbps

why stream on demand if we have the bandwidth to just send the whole video in the first 100ms? this might actually save power; instead of back & forth back & forth with the service, we can transmitnthe whole thing & be done, the server can now go serve other people.