Re:My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
by tgsovlerkhgsel on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:25PM
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The only purpose of 25 Gbit/s at home that I can genuinely see is "because I can".
Going above 1 Gbit/s can have (very limited) practical sense because you can hit that with e.g. Steam downloads, changing a 5 minute wait into a 3 minute wait. You can also basically stop caring about QoS on your uplink once you're at 1 Gbit/s with one human user, or anywhere past 1 Gbps with more than one human user.
For running cables, seriously consider fiber. The hardware isn't as expensive as it used to be, and it solves a lot of problems: You can (based on common sense, not sure of your building code) stick fiber in power conduits since its non conductive, you don't have to worry about potential differences etc., it's thinner (easier to hide/more wife-compatible) and once in place, you will be able to use the same fiber for higher speeds just by swapping the SFP's at the ends.
Going above 1 Gbit/s can have (very limited) practical sense because you can hit that with e.g. Steam downloads, changing a 5 minute wait into a 3 minute wait. You can also basically stop caring about QoS on your uplink once you're at 1 Gbit/s with one human user, or anywhere past 1 Gbps with more than one human user.
For running cables, seriously consider fiber. The hardware isn't as expensive as it used to be, and it solves a lot of problems: You can (based on common sense, not sure of your building code) stick fiber in power conduits since its non conductive, you don't have to worry about potential differences etc., it's thinner (easier to hide/more wife-compatible) and once in place, you will be able to use the same fiber for higher speeds just by swapping the SFP's at the ends.