lol you can get now synchronous 25gbit fiber internet for home use from a swiss local provider. For $60 per month. That means you could transfer a whole M2. 1tb Samsung 970 EVO in 32 seconds.
The future is now. 😄

What would you do with that 25gbs up and down?

Lots and lots of porn

@LiterallyJesus the entirety of pornhub for offline use? 🤠

I think your calculation is off by a factor of 10. Should be 320 seconds, ignoring protocol overhead.

I wouldn't really do anything with 25Gbit/s because most servers are much slower than that.

The same things I do now, which is basically nothing. :(

@Root Doing nothing but really fast is even better - I would know. ^^

In my experience anything over a gigabit is usually throttled on the server end, so unless you have heaps of connections going on in parallel, there's not much to gain with 25Gbit.

100 megabit is more than enough considering how generally slow public servers are

I have a lot of traffic moving between machines and they all have much faster interfaces than 25gbit
Rn they're connected up locally at work
25gbit would let me take some home and run stuff from home. That would be amazing.

@iiii I upgraded to 100 Mbit down / 40 MBit up last year, but Germany is an internet shithole.

25 Gbit/s for just $60 is breathtaking given that I pay 35 EUR. Though I wonder what kind of network @heyheni has that can even cope with such speeds - like 300 EUR for the network card alone.

Gbit != Gbyte
25gbit == 2.910383gbyte
1000gb would take 343.5973890 seconds without flapping and tcp speed correction control. Its still unbearable amount of time :(

@Fast-Nop P2P.

My conenxion is not as fast (400 mbit down, 50 up) and I can pretty much saturate it while downloading vacation movies

@Fast-Nop i have 100 mbit for 9 bucks. europe does not have such tariffs 😄

@iiii
That depends.
Let’s take a 4k HDR+ Movie.
The average bitrate is well below 100 mbit. BUT it can have spike at 150 and more mbits. With 100 mbit you can have buffering issues. Granted, it’s a super rare occasion.
Someone did some testing :
https://reddit.com/r/PleX/...

@iiii True, but adjusted for income parity, it's not that much of a hit anymore. The kicker with the $60 is that Switzerland has even higher income.

@NoToJavaScript what if I told you that 99% of internet users do not care about 4k HDR+ video? 🤔

25 Gbit? Pretty sure my hometown's internet doesn't even hit 25 Mbit.

I'm at the point where I value latency more.

The same thing we do every night, pinky... Try to take over the world!

@Root you sound blue.

@Wisecrack Yeah…

@Root then allow me to divert your attention from your problems and tell you about how my 16 year old cousin who lives in the same house as me and I grew up with f****** shot herself in the head this week.

I'm sorry you're down. Just don't go solving temporary problems with permanent Solutions okay. You're one of the only at most 15-20 people on here that I actually like.

@Wisecrack Aw, thank you. And no, I would not put my family through that. ><

@Root that's what she would have said.

330 730 1082 is my number if you ever just don't want to be alone with your thoughts.

It's no problem at all if you or anyone else wants to just talk. call or text if you ever need. More than welcome.

Experience death and it makes you realize how valuable life is.

@Fast-Nop I've got a 10gbs fiber connection for $35/m. Although my 2016 MacBook only does 980mbs up and down over wifi.

@iiii 100mbs? did you try a gigabit connection? It's amazing. Everything feels like you're downloading a small text file.

@heyheni I've tried 100megabit. Most servers don't even provide that. Only some giants like google can saturate it.

And I cannot make it higher now because I don't want to change copper to fiber.

Meanwhile in the shithole that I live in that is called Canada, you get 25MB for 50$/month... in a freaking city.

@iiii That's the difference. I couldn't change to fibre even if I wanted. Basically because the fibre network plans got cancelled in the 1980s due to corruption in the government where the telco minister was invested in a copper cable company.

@iiii Not sure.

Netflix, amazon, disney + etc are prettu popular. heck, my grand mother of 85 years is buying 4K tv.

But these cases are VERY particular. The content is reencoded in multiple different streams and ususaly they target bandwidth not the quality (so no spikes like 2x 3x average bitrate)

@heyheni Tell me which one. I only know of salt fiber and swisscom offering 10GB for residential.

@p100sch Fiber7
https://init7.net/en/internet/...

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Fiber7-X2, Fiber7X, Fiber7: symmetric Internet (25, 10 or 1 Gbit/sec) - using FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) glass fiber the optical fibres - provided by various public utilities, energy suppliers and the ex-monopolist - and operated by our own infrastructure. There are no sub-suppliers on Fiber7 from Layer-2 onwards - the PoPs and infrastructures is built and operated by Init7. We focus on quality: Access switches from Cisco, optics from FlexOptix, every Fiber7 PoP is never overbooked and has a backhaul capacity of 100 Gigabit or more to our own IP backbone (AS13030) with thousands of peering connections along with cache servers from Akamai and Netflix - at Fiber7 everything is dimensioned so that Gigabit is not just a marketing label.
</nerdmode>

And here I am paying AUD $69 / month for 50Mbits.

Fuck this world some days.

@C0D4 get out of your hellhole filled with all the things that want you dead, I guess