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EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by mmaunder »

Cool, but try to get 25Gbps on your mac. It's tough. We have our own 10 gig symmetrical fiber backbone connection and wanted 25Gbps on a mac in our film production facility. Thunderbolt maxes out at 40Gbps so you're already close to the max data transfer rate for a peripheral. We had to use ATTO's hardware which is bulky, a pain to configure on a macbook (you need to bond two interfaces) and honestly most of the time it's just easier to stay on Wifi and deal with 400Mbps throughput.

Not sure about windows, but USB-C maxes out at 10 Gbps IIRC, so I'd love to hear what folks in that realm are doing.

Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by xxpor »

Shank wrote: post #19
ejb999 wrote: post #12

I don't really see the point - impressed that they offered it, but how many people truly need it? I have 1G symmetric FTTH internet, the bottleneck is still the services I want to access at the other end - really makes no difference how much faster the pipe is, if the service you are using can't keep up. Will some people benefit?? sure - a handful of power users doing massive uploads and downloads for commercial purp…

> I have 1G symmetric FTTH internet, the bottleneck is still the services I want to access at the other end - really makes no difference how much faster the pipe is, if the service you are using can't keep up. I can definitely hit this with one Steam download. If any more users want to download games, they can easily compete for 1G. Netflix and other services have relatively low bitrate streams too. If I could get hi…

60 mbit 4k (same as bluray) would be sick

Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by Forgeties79 »

mmaunder wrote: post #31

Cool, but try to get 25Gbps on your mac. It's tough. We have our own 10 gig symmetrical fiber backbone connection and wanted 25Gbps on a mac in our film production facility. Thunderbolt maxes out at 40Gbps so you're already close to the max data transfer rate for a peripheral. We had to use ATTO's hardware which is bulky, a pain to configure on a macbook (you need to bond two interfaces) and honestly most of the time…

Yeah frankly I just hardline for 1Gbps and anything over like…I don’t know, 1TB? I just ship a drive. Anything beyond 1 or 2 requires too much effort to make work for me.

It helps that I’m an in-house video producer at a tech company and not working at a post house/on major sets anymore haha

Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by oyashirochama »

ejb999 wrote: post #30
Shank wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have 1G symmetric FTTH internet, the bottleneck is still the services I want to access at the other end - really makes no difference how much faster the pipe is, if the service you are using can't keep up. I can definitely hit this with one Steam download. If any more users want to download games, they can easily compete for 1G. Netflix and other services have relatively low bitrate streams too. If I could get hi…

>>You’re used to 1G. But a lot of people are used to a lot more and a lot less. Trust me, I am not used to it (at least not yet)- I have only had it for 5+ months - I have been WFH for more than 25 years and only had access to 3Mbs DSL before this.

Ive hit 5gbps at my dorm room, I had upto 10gbps only issue it was shared with the entire base and at the time only had 2 10gbps trunks out of the ISP. They later upgraded to 2 40gbps from NTT.

Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by nippoo »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #33
mmaunder wrote: post #31

Cool, but try to get 25Gbps on your mac. It's tough. We have our own 10 gig symmetrical fiber backbone connection and wanted 25Gbps on a mac in our film production facility. Thunderbolt maxes out at 40Gbps so you're already close to the max data transfer rate for a peripheral. We had to use ATTO's hardware which is bulky, a pain to configure on a macbook (you need to bond two interfaces) and honestly most of the time…

Yeah frankly I just hardline for 1Gbps and anything over like…I don’t know, 1TB? I just ship a drive. Anything beyond 1 or 2 requires too much effort to make work for me. It helps that I’m an in-house video producer at a tech company and not working at a post house/on major sets anymore haha

The main current use case for this isn't people syncing their Dropboxes very fast, it's businesses and groups of users who can now all reliably each get gigabit+ speeds rather rather than slowing down when multiple people share a connection...

Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by mikestew »

elfatizer wrote: post #15

When we bought a house, the best one ended up being literally a couple miles outside of EPB's service area and I had to switch to Comcast. I see their billboard every time I drive home, just to rub salt in the wound.

You have different parameters than I, because "the best one" has 25Gbps to the home, and not Comcast for an internet provider. :-)

I know what you're saying, though. I suppose it's possible to have higher priorities than bandwidth. Personally, I'd still have to give serious thought to how much I want $FEATURE if it means having to do business with Comcast (or Comcast aside, give up 25Gbps). Backyard for the kids? They can go play in the park. :-)

Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by blakes »

mmaunder wrote: post #31

Cool, but try to get 25Gbps on your mac. It's tough. We have our own 10 gig symmetrical fiber backbone connection and wanted 25Gbps on a mac in our film production facility. Thunderbolt maxes out at 40Gbps so you're already close to the max data transfer rate for a peripheral. We had to use ATTO's hardware which is bulky, a pain to configure on a macbook (you need to bond two interfaces) and honestly most of the time…

In the Windows world one would just get a 25Gb NIC and be good to go.

* and supporting network equipment/cabling of course

Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by xeromal »

r00fus wrote: post #9

Wow this reads like an announcement from a different timeline (like the one that was promised when fiber was promoted in the early 2000s). 25Gb/s symmetric? In the middle of Tennessee? Meanwhile I have traffic-shaped Comcast and no fiber in sight in Silicon Valley.

Yeah, seems some rural communities are getting fiber faster. My house in northern GA far from Atlanta has symmetrical(?) fiber. It gets 1000 up and 1000 down.

Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by yakkityyak »

ejb999 wrote: post #12

I don't really see the point - impressed that they offered it, but how many people truly need it? I have 1G symmetric FTTH internet, the bottleneck is still the services I want to access at the other end - really makes no difference how much faster the pipe is, if the service you are using can't keep up. Will some people benefit?? sure - a handful of power users doing massive uploads and downloads for commercial purp…

Internet is like ram. You can never have too much.

Re: EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

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Post by shepherdjerred »

ejb999 wrote: post #12

I don't really see the point - impressed that they offered it, but how many people truly need it? I have 1G symmetric FTTH internet, the bottleneck is still the services I want to access at the other end - really makes no difference how much faster the pipe is, if the service you are using can't keep up. Will some people benefit?? sure - a handful of power users doing massive uploads and downloads for commercial purp…

> I don't really see the point - impressed that they offered it, but how many people truly need it?

Can you imagine the types of applications this would enable if everyone had a 25gbps connection?

An Xbox could have a 200GB hard drive. Want to play a different game? Just wait a few seconds, we'll download the latest 150GB Call of Duty.

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