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Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:15PM (#30389125)
25 Gbit sounds nice, but even my 1 Gbit line is mostly wasted. I use a Raspberry Pi as my torrent box which seems to cap out at 7 MB/sec write speed. Even Steam tends to only download at 30-50 MB/sec most of the time.

People tend to grossly overestimate how much bandwidth they need, especially non-technical people. Even a 100 Mbit connection is more than capable of letting a family of five all stream Netflix at the same time, but that won't stop Xfinity from up-selling them to a 300 Mbit plan.

Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by lazide on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:39PM (#30389420)
The limiting factor for me is usually uplink speed, especially when moving media around or dealing with backups. I can easily saturate 1G (up) right now, but I’m stuck with crappy xfinity with max uplink speed of 40Mb(bits)/sec. That’s on their highest plan, in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by vonseel on Friday February 18, 2022 @09:51PM (#30393982)
Yep, uploads to a service like Backblaze are the only way I have saturated 1G lines.
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by deeviant on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:27PM (#30389273)
I dunno, I'm downloading from steam at 89 MB/s right now and I'm pretty sure I'm the limiting factor there.

Both my wife and I work from home and are on video conferencing a good portion of the day. I also build locally and push artifacts to the cloud and those clock in at 10+ gigs from some classes of devices and I obviously have to wait for them to build and upload before I can test (yes we have a full CI pipeline but during crunch time it gets smashed and I can be waiting in line for hours, or build it myself in 10 minutes). All things individually don't require such a large pipe, but they add up, quick.

25 is probably overkill, but I would take 10 in a second.

Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by was_a_dev on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:19PM (#30389174)
I currently pay for 78Mbps for myself and my partner. At most I am going to downloading something from steam (~10Mbps), watching something from YouTube (~10Mbps) and my partner will be streaming something to the TV (~10Mbps)

Even at this extreme there's still ample headroom, and our rate is ISP limited; so the line can do much more.

Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by dcow on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:23PM (#30389224)
I have a 1G symmetric line and with a fast enough disk write setup I can hit ~108MB/s for Steam downloads and still be on video calls and stream content simultaneously (different people usually). It’s definitely not wasted for us.
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by was_a_dev on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:27PM (#30389268)
From what I can tell, with Steam, I limited by the datacenter itself. I have friends in my local area, and also nearer the same datacenter, all on much higher bandwidths and write speed, but still hit 10Mbps at best.

Saying that, I am no Steam power-user. Most games will be <10GB with updates <1GB

At this point, I have no services or use cases for anything faster.

Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by dcow on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:35PM (#30389379)
Symmetric 1G also lets you run services legit out of your home which is nice occasionally.
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by Seattle3503 on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:49PM (#30393315)
Gigabit is definitely worth it for me. I can start download for a 50+ GB game on Xbox game pass and be ready to play in a few minutes. I often get home and finish eating by 9pm, and not needing to wait 45 min to an hour to download a game makes a huge difference.
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by BrandoElFollito on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:09AM (#30396195)
I have a 970/390 Mbps link (France, Orange) that I took more for the fun than anything else. Despite having a lot of self hosted environnements I will never even come close to that with current equipment and technology.

It would take a huge leap in a service requirements to change that, and would mean that I have to change my server and probably switch

Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by neurostimulant on Saturday February 19, 2022 @06:51AM (#30396414)
I would pay a lot to not have to worry about bandwidth anymore. Too bad the only available ISP in my area only offers up to 50mbps even though they're already using a fiber line.
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by YaBomm on Friday February 18, 2022 @02:21PM (#30389958)
For the Rpi, the storage device might be your limiting factor... (not the storage device itself, but connection to it from the Pi)
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer by Sohcahtoa82 on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:42PM (#30390788)
It is, for sure. It's an old external hard drive.