Your Internet is Too Fast

[Skiiwee29]

Just now, Godlygamer23 said:

Total nonsense lol.

Although I don't think what I pay is too terrible. $90 for 1Gb/s in both directions(fiber) I don't think is a bad deal - although I'm sure someone will one up me, other than you lol.

lol yea, 10gb service isn't even a service we offer for FTTH currently and likely won't ever in the near future as the PON ports on our Calix gear only allows about 8gb of throughput up and down.  5gb is what we're looking to offer at most and likely only to business subscribers. 

[YellowJersey]

I actually went with gigabit because it was actually marginally cheaper than staying with my previous 800megabit connection from a different ISP. Gotta love Canada's crappy telecom oligopoly.

[Spindel]

I applaud this video and, as linus said himself, never thought LTT would actually say this.

 

I personally have had 1 gbps speed available for years but I just couldn’t motivate this. I’ve settled with 250/250 mbps for only slightly less (the cost difference for me between 250/250 and 1000/1000 actually isn’t that large).

 

To me symetrical connection is something I value highly even if I don’t seed torrents and even if the monthly statistics from my router tell me that I generally only upload about 10 % of the data that I download. But I do like having snappy upload of files when working from home and I do have a set up to be able to access some things in my home network remoteley.

 

 

Also people complaining that this is only valid for people in cities, that feels like a very north american sentiment.

[Marvin_The_Robot]

Hey all, Just learned that seedbox's exist via this video.

A quick look on youtube didn't show me much info regarding best seedbox providers, features I should be looking for etc. Anyone have some tips for me regarding this?

I currently have a self hosted Plex and '-arr' docker stack server on my NAS and want to figure out the best way to migrate it all to a seedbox. Would I have to manually upload everything I currently have from my NAS to the seedbox? (Australian internet connection does not provide a very good upload rate)

I'd appreciate any info people could provide.

[dogwitch]

13 hours ago, Skiiwee29 said:

lol yea, 10gb service isn't even a service we offer for FTTH currently and likely won't ever in the near future as the PON ports on our Calix gear only allows about 8gb of throughput up and down.  5gb is what we're looking to offer at most and likely only to business subscribers. 

seen your speed.... cough sneakes into your place. ads a fiber line to your connection....

skii will never know.... wait i said that out load..

[Lurick]

15 hours ago, GodAtum said:

Linus forgot about Plex. a good 4K movie is about 30 Mbps. If a family of 4 are watching 4 different films, then a ultrafast internet is vital.

What does Plex have to do with this?

If you have a local plex server then internet doesn't mean squat.

[Spindel]

6 hours ago, Lurick said:

What does Plex have to do with this?

If you have a local plex server then internet doesn't mean squat.

And even if it is a remote plex server you don't need 1 gbps for that very theoretical use case. 250-500 mbps will serve you more than well.

[Amaranth]

Personally I wouldn't want less than synchronous gigabit and, ideally, would have an even higher maximum transfer speed given that I've been able to saturate my current connection while working from home (I'm in the process of upgrading to multi-gigabit but it's taking awhile for the ISP to install the required infrastructure despite the rest of my home network being ready for it). That said, one reason for the higher usage is probably that, aside from phones and undocked laptops, every device on the network is hardwired with CAT6 and so is able to actually take advantage of the faster internet.