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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by voltagex_ on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @10:35AM (#21005845)
What's the actual bandwidth like? Where's the closest big exchange?
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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by virgilp on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:03AM (#21006134)
I don't have the 1Gbps connection, I took the cheaper 400Mbps one. But they're fairly good at actually offering the promised bandwidth. Again, internet is one of the very few top-notch things here, better than most of the world.
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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by pkaye on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @02:26PM (#21008414)
What is the effective speed you can get because of bandwidth throttling done by remote servers? Can you get close to 400Mbps to cloud storage for example? Currently I have 150Mbps and been wondering if increasing it would be worth the extra cost.
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Re:Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battli... by fragmede on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @06:21PM (#21010983)
It really depends on the cloud storage provider, and once you have gigabit, you can tell who's being cheap with their CDN/local POP. Some downloads scream along and gigabit is worth it. It's ridiculous to me that local disk can be the bottleneck. (This is with a spinning disk. An SSD, less so.) Others downloads... don't.
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