Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
And 640kb of memory should be enough for anyone. I recently got a 5Gbps symmetric connection, and it’s made a world of difference (I work with large datasets and streaming media).
You have a 5Gbps network card to handle that?
Good question. Mostly 2.5Gbps cards and 1Gbps (or less) wireless, but the value is in the aggregate use of the network - I have a decent homelab, Tailscale for accessing things while on the road, various streaming things and so on. I will likely add a 5Gpbs card to my next server build.
My ISP keeps encouraging me to upgrade to 7Gpbs symmetric, but even I don’t need that much bandwidth (yet!)
FWIW, the speedy fiber service costs about a third less than the cable service it replaced, which was a fraction of the speed.
That’s a good deal then.
Do you think that is unlikely? Its not like those cards are hard to find.
Just most people only have a 1Gbps card, and so 2.5 is not a real benefit. Not 5.0 either. Since bottleneck is PC