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Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by TheSoftwareGuy »

bullen wrote: post #30

The problem with >1GB/s is the energy you need to saturate it. 10GB/s needs a 10+W router and you'll need atleast 50W of compute behind that. On lead-acid if you want long battery life and a good uptime you'll need atleast 4x 50Ah batteries. 25GB/s does not scale without waste unless you are ok with having 10x lead-acid batteries in the room where you live/sleep because that energy is heating. Dunno about the hydroge…

I'm confused, 50W is not a lot of electricity for an outlet. Why would you need batteries?

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

uvesten wrote: post #48

This is the ISP that I’m using, and they are insanely great, imho. I especially like that you get a static IPv6 /28 for free, something that has finally made me learn IPv6 in depth. Still only on 1 Gb/s fiber though, because I havent found any router that is 10 or 25 Gbps that I’d really like to have at home. Are there any good consumer-grade 10 or 25 gbps routers? Also, what is up with all computers _still_ having 1…

I think it isn't too hard to get consumer-grade 2.5Gb hardware

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

25 Gbit sounds nice, but even my 1 Gbit line is mostly wasted. I use a Raspberry Pi as my torrent box which seems to cap out at 7 MB/sec write speed. Even Steam tends to only download at 30-50 MB/sec most of the time.

People tend to grossly overestimate how much bandwidth they need, especially non-technical people. Even a 100 Mbit connection is more than capable of letting a family of five all stream Netflix at the same time, but that won't stop Xfinity from up-selling them to a 300 Mbit plan.

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by Jailbird »

bauruine wrote: post #47
sidpatil wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you're wiring a home today, I would 100% use OS2 over CatN unless you also need PoE. Won't you end up with a bunch of media converters everywhere though?

A dualport 10 Gbit/s SFP+ PCI-E card with an optic is like 25$ on ebay.

If you're wiring a home - wouldn't lay-people want it to look nice? Are these made with any way to hide them in walls, exposing a usable port (even if RJ-45?)

Or if not - how should one think about deploying all this in a new home?

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by notimetorelax »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #10

I have 1gbps. I had to get a decent router. Cheap home routers can't handle it even when they outright claim they can. You also want something better than cat5 for home wiring. Lastly spinning hard drives wont keep up on sustained reads/writes you need an SSD. The above is things you should do when you have 1gbps in order to actually get those speeds. I know people will argue citing 640k being enough for everyone and…

Heh, had the same difficulties. It’s funny how slow home equipment is when compared to 25gbit/s internet. I’m waiting for my 10 gibt/s to be enabled by init7, but even that took me multiple weeks to research to find a reasonably sized router that can do 10g/s. And even that is a bit of an overkill, I’m getting it simply because it’s free if you have 1g/s already.

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by TameAntelope »

uvesten wrote: post #48

This is the ISP that I’m using, and they are insanely great, imho. I especially like that you get a static IPv6 /28 for free, something that has finally made me learn IPv6 in depth. Still only on 1 Gb/s fiber though, because I havent found any router that is 10 or 25 Gbps that I’d really like to have at home. Are there any good consumer-grade 10 or 25 gbps routers? Also, what is up with all computers _still_ having 1…

> I especially like that you get a static IPv6 /28 for free

Have we learned nothing...

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by SamuelAdams »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #52
uvesten wrote: post #48

This is the ISP that I’m using, and they are insanely great, imho. I especially like that you get a static IPv6 /28 for free, something that has finally made me learn IPv6 in depth. Still only on 1 Gb/s fiber though, because I havent found any router that is 10 or 25 Gbps that I’d really like to have at home. Are there any good consumer-grade 10 or 25 gbps routers? Also, what is up with all computers _still_ having 1…

I think it isn't too hard to get consumer-grade 2.5Gb hardware

Any recommendations? I’m currently using a Protect CLI 4 port vault running PFSense. Want to replace it with a 2.5gb or higher device but I can’t find anything.

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by EvanAnderson »

joshstrange wrote: post #11
Enginerrrd wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd take YOUR deal in a heartbeat. I pay $110/month for 75Mbps down / 10Mbps up and 300GB data. They also constantly harass me with upsells and raise prices 10% per year.

Dang, that's rough. I'll fully admit I got super lucky. My ISP is MetroNet and you wouldn't necessarily think Lexington, KY would have fiber at all or if they did that it would be a good deal but thankfully MetroNet serves my area and has great prices. I wish they were in OH as well so I could move my parents over to them, they are stuck on Spectrum.

They're in Ohio now in a limited area: https://getmetronetinternet.com/availability/#metronet-ohio

They're expanding aggressively in those areas, too.

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

joshstrange wrote: post #5

So $843.60/yr ($70.3/mo) + a 1-time $361.54 fee? I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. I pay a little over $100 for 1Gbps symmetrical plus a static IP.

I pay a little over $70/mo for 200Mbx10Mb. If this service were available to me at twice the price I'd still consider it a deal.

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by bauruine »

uvesten wrote: post #48

This is the ISP that I’m using, and they are insanely great, imho. I especially like that you get a static IPv6 /28 for free, something that has finally made me learn IPv6 in depth. Still only on 1 Gb/s fiber though, because I havent found any router that is 10 or 25 Gbps that I’d really like to have at home. Are there any good consumer-grade 10 or 25 gbps routers? Also, what is up with all computers _still_ having 1…

>static IPv6 /28 I guess you mean /48. Even as a LIR the default assignment from RIPE is a /32.
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