FTTH rules the roost!

[Astro What]

Brightspeed was pulliing fiber through our neighborhood last month.
After the issues I've been having with our cable modem ISP (been a customer for 15 years) and their inability to troubleshoot the issue over a two month period I decided to switch.

I can live with this for awhile.



Twice the speed for less money (and it's symmetrical and not asymmetrical like the cable modem) and then getting Hulu Live and I'm still almost $100 less than I was paying.

 

[Hitcore]

>2253/2192 mbps
>2 ms ping



Jesus Christ...

 

[Retro]

Lucky you. Wish I could get anything anywhere near that.

Other than a speed test, do you ever see those speeds when downloading or uploading big files? Just wondering as I reckon that this could be faster than many servers can handle, especially while serving lots of other requests.

Please let us know how fast it goes with these tests:

Apparently, this becomes less accurate at superfast speeds.

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Use Speedtest on all your devices with our free desktop and mobile apps.

speedtest.net

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/download

 

[Retro]

Jesus Christ...

You called?

 

[Hitcore]

Just wondering as I reckon that this could be faster than many servers can handle, especially while serving lots of other requests.

A single server probably wouldn't be able to match that (if only for being capped per connection), but I think that -in theory- if you would download something through BitTorrent and it has like 1000+ seeds and you'd somehow connect to most of them, then all those connections add up, reaching combined download speeds in excess of hundreds and hundreds of megabytes per second, assuming your hardware can keep up.

 

[Astro What]

Lucky you. Wish I could get anything anywhere near that.

Other than a speed test, do you ever see those speeds when downloading or uploading big files? Just wondering as I reckon that this could be faster than many servers can handle, especially while serving lots of other requests.

Please let us know how fast it goes with these tests:

Apparently, this becomes less accurate at superfast speeds.

Speedtest by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test

Use Speedtest on all your devices with our free desktop and mobile apps.

speedtest.net

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/download

Limited to 1Gbps on the Mac Mini due to the ethernet port. And I get that easily.
WiFi is slower of course as current router WiFi doesn't do 1Gbps over WiFi.
From my 2013 era Mac Mini.

Ookla Speedtest (server about 40 miles away)



Server about half the country away (California from Texas)



Server test in London UK



Fast.com (Netflix supported)



The 5GB download is only a 5 minute one at the thinkbroadband link.
As for downloading big files... I was finally able to connect to my NFS server and sync my site backups. About 210GB. It was done in around an hour.

 

[Astro What]

Working on upgrading my old 2013 Mac Mini using OCLP to Monterrey from Catalina.
You have to download the 12.7GB OS image.



The original time was 3 minutes to download.

 

[AllThingsTech]

Can’t be cheap

 

[Astro What]

Can’t be cheap

It's $90 a month for me. That's about $15 less a month than I was paying for 1Gbps down from Zito Media cable provider (and only getting about 20Mbps for the previous 2 months before moving to a new provider).
It did mean that we had to pick another streaming package for our live TV since you could only use the Zito Roku app if you were on their cable internet service. So we went with Hulu Live TV.

 

[Retro]

2Gbps symmetric. I don't like you anymore. <sulk>

 

[AllThingsTech]

Can i lease your line @Astro What

 

[Astro What]

The one complaint I do have is I can not get a static IP from BrightSpeed on the fiber. You can get them for their DSL offering, just not fiber. And I have a feeling that part of that is due to the fact that folks might run servers off of them and overload the bandwidth in the neighborhood backhaul.
They may offer it on their commercial fiber offering, but that is substantially more expensive. They also offer an 8GB plan in some areas. One of our local established fiber providers is now also offering 10GB plans.
I also had to buy a new router (Archer AX80) because I needed a WAN port to support the 2Gbps link.

 

[Retro]

ISPs never seem to like their users hosting their own personal websites, no matter how fast the service and is something I find quite annoying. Community Fibre is fast like yours, but hide your IP behind CGNAT and probably isn't static. I don't have their service so can't say for sure. With Openreach based ISPs, some provide a static IP, so sounds great, right? Not so much as this is still an asymmetric service running at 115Mbps upload at the very fastest. Their current fastest download speed is only 1.6Gbps too, which isn't so fast compared to the latest speeds available from others.

For example, I'd have loved to have my own mini data centre for my forum at home. I could have had a couple of separate PCs working in a failover mode and a separate one for backups and all with unlimited free storage, not the small amount meted out by hosting companies and charged a premium for. With all this equipment however, I dread to think what my electricity bill would have been like, or how hot it would get in summer...

 

[AllThingsTech]

@Retro you can still have your own mini data centre by hosting via cloud platforms

 

[Astro What]

With many residential ISPs they restrict, via their TOS, running servers from your residence. They don't mind if you purchase their commercial level offerings though.

 

[Retro]

@AllThingsTech yeah, that's what I did with AWS, but I always wanted my own servers.

@Astro What and those cost a pretty penny, sigh.

 

[AllThingsTech]

@Retro are you still running NZ on AWS?
I’m just curious as to why you’d want your own servers… what’d you consider more cost efficient?