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My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by xen2xen1 »

spaniard89277 wrote: post #64
jonnylynchy wrote: post #7

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. :)

With a best effort connection Id rather have a well oiled setup, without cgnat, a good cpe, sensible throttling etc and 100mbps than whatever huge amount of gbps.

It's easy to get all the above and fast internet without much trouble. An old PC with OPNsense can do that.

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by jshier »

zahma wrote: post #97

No %#*^ing way is he saturating a 25gbit connection to download a PS5 game — not on Sony’s EMEA servers anyway. He’d download the largest PS5 game out there (Borderlands at 50GB) in a minute anyway — probably before he could reach the full 25gbit. On a gigabit connection, he could download Borderlands in under 7 minutes. If that’s too long too wait, then having a faster connection isn’t this guy’s problem. The only u…

Borderlands at 50GB isn't the largest PS5 game. I don't know what is but Horizon Forbidden West was ~90GB.

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by kuschku »

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.

The useful part is that if you download steam games and your PS5 is updating at the same time, your video call won’t even notice it.

The realistic limits are per connection. But with 25Gbps you can just have multiple connections open without any of them ever affecting any other.

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by Existenceblinks »

KMnO4 wrote: post #92
Existenceblinks wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$50 is about 1 week of 3 meals consumption per day (lower middle class)

So a bit under $2.50/meal. That’s very comparable to lower/lower-middle in the USA.

In capital city, I'd say it's about $4-5/meal (including drink) in daily basis. For those who eat lots of things, $7/meal makes them full.

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footnote here: official income record of thai people/businesses does not really reflect reality. Lots of entities are kind of off-system.

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by mardifoufs »

mrstone wrote: post #76
Mikeb85 wrote: post #60

Canada here. 500 Mbps is like $80/month lol.

It's all pretty negotiable. I pay $69/mo for gigabit fibre through Telus.

Where? I pay 60$ for mildly spotty 120mbps and that was very good deal a year ago. It's pretty sad considering I live in Montréal. I know western Canada has way better internet/data prices though

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by mastax »

Does anyone have a good primer about optical networking links? Single and multimode fiber, connectors, transcievers, etc. When and why you would choose different technologies, how much they cost, etc. I'm realizing that I have a large hole in my knowledge there. Google is full of mid-tier SEO garbage as usual.

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by 411111111111111 »

jshier wrote: post #102
zahma wrote: post #97

No %#*^ing way is he saturating a 25gbit connection to download a PS5 game — not on Sony’s EMEA servers anyway. He’d download the largest PS5 game out there (Borderlands at 50GB) in a minute anyway — probably before he could reach the full 25gbit. On a gigabit connection, he could download Borderlands in under 7 minutes. If that’s too long too wait, then having a faster connection isn’t this guy’s problem. The only u…

Borderlands at 50GB isn't the largest PS5 game. I don't know what is but Horizon Forbidden West was ~90GB.

The last spiderman was something around 200gb, and I think call of duty is even larger, but i don't play that.

Their point still stands though: the download servers bandwidth usually throttles below gigabit, so it's gonna be hard to saturate that line today

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by zaroth »

KMnO4 wrote: post #92
Existenceblinks wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$50 is about 1 week of 3 meals consumption per day (lower middle class)

So a bit under $2.50/meal. That’s very comparable to lower/lower-middle in the USA.

Where did you get that number?

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by docdeek »

jonnylynchy wrote: post #7

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. :)

In a large French city with 10gb/s fibre connection at 50 euros à month (internet, TV, fixed line phone). More than enough for two people working from home + family.
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