• diffusive@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Written in Switzerland from my 25GBps symmetric connection (for like 60$/month) that I have for a couple of years 🤷‍♂️

    Also for personal use the difference between 1Gbps and 25 (or, I guess, 100GBps) is essentially zero… your everyday connection is via WiFi (good luck to get more than 1GBps there) or on a home server/NAS/workstation where likely you run batch jobs where the difference between 1 minute or 5 minutes is not a huge deal (and yes I am not saying 1 vs 25 because at that speed generally the bottleneck is the place where you are getting data from)

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      5 days ago

      I have a 40Mbps down, 5Mbps up connection for $30. Consider yourself as real lucky.

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, I was on that until the other week, when my area finally got upgraded to 1Gbps.

        It’s nice for big downloads (and with game sizes what they are now, that bit is a big difference), but for regular use? Not really a vast change. It’s nice that your bandwidth doesn’t suddenly vanish when one of your unattended devices decides to wake up and download a 20GB update for a game you haven’t played in months I guess.

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          3 days ago

          I think you’ve misread my comment or there is some misunderstanding.

          Just in case, it’s a misread, my speed is 40 Mega bit per second - not 40 mega byte per second.

          I have to choose what I want to do and do those things with consideration, otherwise things like streaming will buffer a lot.

          If you thought I said 40MBps, then I’d agree, as i imagine the difference between 320Mbps and 1Gbps won’t be noticed unless you’re timing large downloads.

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            3 days ago

            Yeah, I know. I was on 30Mbps. Took like 5 minutes to download a gigabyte. Now it takes around 10 seconds.

            But most video streaming sites are well below that, and web pages are a few MB tops. The only noticeable difference is when doing larger downloads.

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              3 days ago

              You and I have completely different views and experiences on this, as I don’t agree with your statement at all; which is why I think you’ve misunderstood.