WiFi
While I love that ISP are continuing to ramp up the speeds beyond 5 Gbps, keep in mind that 99.99% of home user connect on WiFi which taps out at like 1-2 Gbps.
25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
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Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#22I've got AT&T Fiber's 5 gigabit symmetric service (with a Ubiquiti equipment stack that handles 40 gigabit without issue) and while its been very stable and I win all nerd fights with my speed tests, I've been thinking about dropping back down to 1 gigabit because I don't find much value out of 5. If it was cheaper ($180/mo for 5 gigabit) maybe I'd keep it but Astound/WaveG is offering gigabit symmetric for $50/mo with 4 free months so tough to swallow.
Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#23How many hours can you saturate that 25 Gbit connection up and down before support calls you and tells you to knock it off?
I ran about 8TB on my fiber in one month, and no ISP notices to speak of. That's only ~25mbps sustained. You could easily push 500+TB on a 25gbps connection if you were doing something naughty with it, and I'm sure you'd hear from them about it if you did!
Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#24Recently moved up to 3gbps bidirectional and had a hell of a time getting 3gbps even with 10gbps network card directly into the 10gbps port on the ISP-provided modem. In addition to this, there are very few services that will actually feed you data at 3gbps. Steam - ~280MB/s (2.2gbps) Battle.net launcher - ~140MB/s (1.1gbps) 25GB Torrent with 1000+ seeders - ~70MB/s (~560mbps) 2GB iso from github - ~80MB/s (~650mbps)…
280MB/s steam? On a good day I get 25MB/s (Vodafone 400/25) on any German mirror
Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#25For home runs I'd recommend using duplex instead of simplex (the cable out to the provider has to stay to whatever they require of course). For a 100M cable it's $37.47 for the duplex and $24.48 for the simplex, the price difference of $13 for a really long run. The price difference of 2x 25BASE-LR (duplex) vs 2x 25BASE-BX (simplex) transceivers will be more like $60. Even if you want to stick with simplex optics everywhere adding If your concern is the physical size of the cable just make sure you're getting a non-splittable duplex cable. Some people prefer splittable because then if they need a simplex cable they can just pull it apart but that's what requires the cable to be larger as you get 2 individually shielded cables. The actual fiber core is measured in microns, you can pack 100s in roughly the same sized jacket.
Bonus note: If you're ever looking at doing a bunch of runs between two spots you can look into MTP/MPO trunk cables. These put 12 strands in the same protective sheath so it's still a really tiny cable and then you can break out via a pigtail cable at the other end.
Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#26Recently moved up to 3gbps bidirectional and had a hell of a time getting 3gbps even with 10gbps network card directly into the 10gbps port on the ISP-provided modem. In addition to this, there are very few services that will actually feed you data at 3gbps. Steam - ~280MB/s (2.2gbps) Battle.net launcher - ~140MB/s (1.1gbps) 25GB Torrent with 1000+ seeders - ~70MB/s (~560mbps) 2GB iso from github - ~80MB/s (~650mbps)…
And here I am with 300Mbps (Charter/Spectrum) that tanks to 50Mbps after 5:00 PM for the "low" price of $99.99/month...
Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#27Recently moved up to 3gbps bidirectional and had a hell of a time getting 3gbps even with 10gbps network card directly into the 10gbps port on the ISP-provided modem. In addition to this, there are very few services that will actually feed you data at 3gbps. Steam - ~280MB/s (2.2gbps) Battle.net launcher - ~140MB/s (1.1gbps) 25GB Torrent with 1000+ seeders - ~70MB/s (~560mbps) 2GB iso from github - ~80MB/s (~650mbps)…
280MB/s steam? On a good day I get 25MB/s (Vodafone 400/25) on any German mirror
Speeds seem to vary based on the game and based on releases, interestingly. Some larger new-releases (Baldur's gate) were only hitting Aside from that release, almost everything that is a good size (>10GB) has gotten north of 100MB/s pretty regularly.
Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#28How many hours can you saturate that 25 Gbit connection up and down before support calls you and tells you to knock it off?
I ran about 8TB on my fiber in one month, and no ISP notices to speak of. That's only ~25mbps sustained. You could easily push 500+TB on a 25gbps connection if you were doing something naughty with it, and I'm sure you'd hear from them about it if you did!
I used 2TB on my cable modem once and got called with them trying to upsell me to Unlimited data for $75/mo more.
Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#29Recently moved up to 3gbps bidirectional and had a hell of a time getting 3gbps even with 10gbps network card directly into the 10gbps port on the ISP-provided modem. In addition to this, there are very few services that will actually feed you data at 3gbps. Steam - ~280MB/s (2.2gbps) Battle.net launcher - ~140MB/s (1.1gbps) 25GB Torrent with 1000+ seeders - ~70MB/s (~560mbps) 2GB iso from github - ~80MB/s (~650mbps)…
Yeah, that is also what I found. 'Just' 1gbs fiber, but downloads are often bottlenecked by the server, especially things like GitHub.
Re: 25 Gbit/s at home, part 1
#30How many hours can you saturate that 25 Gbit connection up and down before support calls you and tells you to knock it off?
You absolutely should not ever get hassled for using a product that you already paid for, that's incredibly stupid. Unfortunately the US just treats anything that isn't a corporation like trash.