Re:Ask HN: Is 10mbps good enough in today's world?
by frfl on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:38PM
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You may be interested in https://mosh.org/ as an alternative to ssh
Re:Ask HN: Is 10mbps good enough in today's world?
by zie on Saturday March 10, 2018 @08:50PM
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I'm in the same boat as the OP, except I rarely peak 1Mbps. mosh makes life bearable.
Re:Ask HN: Is 10mbps good enough in today's world?
by rammy1234 on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:17PM
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so 50mbps and 100 mbps are really overkill for home purposes
I don't love my network being this slow, but I'm able to do most things without pain, including streaming Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/YouTube, though I often get the lower resolution versions of those streams. Latency is much more of an issue, for me...when it climbs, I find working difficult. I do a lot of my development on servers a few hundred miles away, because I can't realistically download a bunch of VM images or OS install ISOs and that's the kind of work I do, so having ssh be responsive is really important.
But, sure, faster is better. I don't like that our telcos in the US lag the rest of the modern world by at least a generation of tech. Average broadband speed to price ratio in the US is something like 14th in the world; embarrassing for the nation that did most of the innovation of the early internet. Likewise, we're way behind on mobile broadband accessibility, price, and performance.