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My ISP recently upgraded my connection from 100 down to 500 down, and outside of Steam game updates I’ve barely noticed a difference, the latency is unchanged and that’s one of the biggest issues (Second is just how inefficient modern software is)
I also think people overestimate how much bandwidth certain tasks require, like video streaming. The Twitch recommendations are only 6Mbps for 1080p60 content, and it’s about the same to watch the content (e.g. YouTube is about 5Mbps for 1080p video). Unless you’ve got like 100 kids all streaming at once you’d be fine.
I’m big on selfhosting and WFH, so symmetric 1Gbs is huge for me. Different people have different needs. My same provider offers symmetric 2.5Gbs, but my router and switch can’t handle that. YET!
That guy is not a power user. Everybody’s use case is different. His opinion is great for him but I wasted my time reading that. Get off my lawn.
Meh, he has a point. For WFH I do a lot of large file transfers, often, plus Teams meetings, and streaming media. I have found 300 is OK, 500 is ideal. 1gig is not really worth the extra cost, unless it is symmetrical. Even then though the receiver often can’t receive at that high speed.
It’s getting cheaper and cheaper. For me 1 gb is fantastic for wfh, multiple gamer children, video streaming, photo uploads and nobody notices when I’m downloading 100gb of data. Again everybody’s situation is different, so for me 1gb has been huge. And that makes the blanket statement about it not being worth it false.
And 640kb of memory should be enough for anyone. I recently got a 5Gbps symmetric connection, and it’s made a world of difference (I work with large datasets and streaming media).
You have a 5Gbps network card to handle that?
Do you think that is unlikely? Its not like those cards are hard to find.
Just most people only have a 1Gbps card, and so 2.5 is not a real benefit. Not 5.0 either. Since bottleneck is PC
Now gigabit upload, that’s another story!
Braindead take. I easily move 100s of GB a month in training data between my home and work cluster.
Having a local caching DNS server (unbound) makes a big difference in perceived speed. Putting pihole in front of that is even bigger. At least for me.
I don’t stream and I don’t have 2 or 3 people making video calls. So it’s fine that I’m not on 1gbps. But with a couple teenagers and adults streaming and working it adds up.
