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I'd take guaranteed 100Mbps without outages over best effort 1Gpbs any time. Unfortunately, it's hard to get this service at reasonable consumer prices, at least in Germany
I've seen a lot of Germans talk about getting Starlink, for both the speed (400Mbps down) and stable uptime.
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True, but that is transport (TLS). I was asking about the underlying data.
I am curious why you are interested in that.
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I am curious why you are interested in that.
Because I would have expected for game development that it would be rare for majority of the large assets (art, textures, 3d meshes, video, sound, music) to change multiple times per day, so - to me - sounds like would perfectly suit a differential/incremental sync protocol, rather than treating everything as a large packed blob. At least that was the case for the game development I did.
(I have 2.5gbps LAN for my workstation, server, and Wi-Fi APs; with a 2400mbps symmetric AT&T fiber uplink)
Yeah, it's overkill, but it's great to have the headroom when i really want to push things. Uplink bandwidth is basically guaranteed never to be an issue. Yeah i could save some money and go to 1500mbps i guess but something about having ~2.5G the whole way through provides some peace of mind somehow
Think this underestimates quality of life benefits. Recently went from a 500mbps line + wifi bridge (~ +2ms, 1.5gbps throughput on wifi) to a 1.6gig line with wired 2.5gig and was surprised that it made a noticeable difference in casual browsing. The numbers say it shouldn't but it did If 30 bucks more saves me time on downloads AND every single click on browsing a bit snappier...that makes sense to me even if I don'…
A really good CDN like Steam can absolutely saturate a link like that. I'm on a gigabit line (which actually performs at more like 1.1), and I've seen 120MB/sec download speeds on Steam. With today's games often weighting in at 50GB+ that's not nothing, either.
For a developer, there is a lot of benefits in having at least 1 Gb/s internet connection. Obviously, downloads of software, docker images take significantly less time than 100 Mb/s connection could ever provide. But the benefits do not end there. Publishing of build artifacts, websites etc. are significantly sped up as well. And the most important perk: you can self-host certain parts of your infrastructure by keepi…
It's really great to have 2.5G all the way through from the VPS to my router to the server.
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In my experience, the Sony servers can barely saturate a 500Mbps pipe.
Steam will near saturate a 1Gb pipe for me. I have downloaded quite a few Linux ISOs from mirrors at 90MB/s.
I was watching yesterday F1 practice and qualification in some German channel worth German ads and couldn't believe the advertised prices, they were advertising 100Mb for 36€, only 30 times more expensive, the other ad was like 250Mb for like 24€, 8 times more expensive, what are these people smoking?
I've had before upgrade 250Mb, but without fiber installed in different room, so the speed where I needed it was max 120Mb, now this was quality of life improvement, while movie download within minute instead of waiting 10-20 minutes, work attachments almost instantaneous and my kids are not using the internet yet.
Funnily in speed test I'm able to reach slightly higher top speed on my Pixel 6a with wifi 6e than on laptop directly connected with gigabit cable to router, but it's almost same like 960 vs 950 Mb.
I'd take guaranteed 100Mbps without outages over best effort 1Gpbs any time. Unfortunately, it's hard to get this service at reasonable consumer prices, at least in Germany
I saw yesterday some German ads while watching F1 and the prices were insane like 8-30x higher than in Czechia and they were not ashamed to advertise it, here I pay 12€ in Prague for fiber 1Gb and it's so expensive because I'm not using directly my ISP infrastructure bit be rents it from power supplier, otherwise it could be 10€, it's odd since mobile data prices are much more expensive here than in neighboring countries