I'm up for renewal and I just wanna know, is it really worth it to upgrade to it? It'd mean a whole mess of gettin new routers and modems sent to me, but people I know that have it said they won't go back off it.Who on /g/ has it? Or faster? Is it worth the price? You can dump your internet speeds if you want
I've had gigabit for about 6 years and the only servers that can saturate it or even come close are steam and huggingface. Even actors that clearly should be able to like Google choose not to. Pretty good for your seeding ratio though.
>>106729251Depends.Symetrical?Static IPv4?No CGNAT?Reasonable price?Can you set reverse DNS?
>>106729251desu what makes it worth it is the up, not as much the down.
>>106729251No, unless you download stuff a lot. For the average person who only uses streaming services it's a ripoff.
I had 300 mbps and it was not noticeable in day-to-day browsing, watching youtube, etc. Even video calls and uploading/downloading from google drive wasn't any different than 50 or 100 mbps. The issue is most services won't allow you to take up all their bandwidth.
>>106729266This. They'll jew you out of your bandwidth server side. You want a speed test? Don't go on some faggy biased site. Instead run yt-dlp and watch jewtube cuck you to the kbps tier.
>>106729319That's because youtube suspects the connection to be non-legitimate and throttle the fuck out of it.I can watch 25mbps+ bitrate youtube content directly on youtube no problem and using the "stats for nerds" tab I can even see my network connection hitting hundreds of mbps while filling the (short) buffer.
fast internet enables piracy, every person should have 20/2 internet
>>106729284The up isn't super relevant since most services you'll be uploading to can't (or won't) allow you to upload beyond a few hundred mbps at most.I have 2.5Gbps upload and outside of speedtests i've never seen an upload break 500mbps.
Do not use any speed test other than fast.com. ISPs prioritize them so they can pretend they're not false advertising. fast.com is Netflix's CDN domain as well so you'll get the real number.
>>106729410Exactly. Your connection is never maxed out. You just get a higher allowance because you're using the jeeted up jewtube player like a good goy.
>>106729476I personally like Google's speed test.
>>106729280All yes for me except reverse DNS. No clue why that isn't supported. Also daily reminder CGNAT is a scam if deployed in the West on non-mobile.
>>106729488Daily reminder CGNAT is deployed because normalfags and browns overwhelm the amount of IPv4. I'm not defending the practice but the problem is ultimately solved by chemotherapy.
>>106729251>UHH IS HAVING BITCHIN FAST INTERNET WORTH IT GUYZWhat kind of dumbshit question is this?
>>106729484google's speedtest is actually just a dumbdown version of M-Labs speedtesthttps://speed.measurementlab.net
>>106729447And yet ISPs screech in agony at the thought of you having more than 10 MBps upload.
>>106729668It's because their own infrastructure can't handle the upload, not because they want to fuck you over. At least in most cases, there are a few fiber ISPs out there that restrict upload speed simply because they think it'll steal away their small business customers. But that's generally rare and most fiber ISPs have no problem providing symmetric connections for home internet.
>>106729476oh damn
>>106729727Fast.com is also good at lying at higher speeds.It says I have 2.9-3gbps even though I'm using 2.5GbE router, switches, and NICs.
>>106729683I really wonder how many ISPs only give you full upload speed on whitelisted speed test sites and caps otherwise.
>>106729759I know for a fact my ISP doesn't throttle simply because I can hit like 2gbps when racing torrents, it's just incredibly rare to hit those speeds due to the nature of torrents and how the swarm behaves.But almost every major service throttle from their end, google and microsoft rarely if ever go beyond 300-500mbps upload for me, and I'm pretty sure it's on their end, not my ISPs.
>>106729251I went back to 100/100 after having 1000/1000 for a year. Wasn't worth the money to me.Soon I'm moving to Belgium where I'm gonna be stuck with 100/40 since the country is ridiculously behind in rolling out fiber.
>>106729817I couldn't even get 100/100 if i wanted to.My ISP's lowest tier is 300/300.
>>106729727yeah cuz my pc is plugged into the router with cat 8 cables on the 2.5gbps port, i thought this was weird, i do get around 1-2gbps on steam downloads
>>106730416meant to >>106729756
>>106729266thisliterally steam was the only thing (at the time for me a few years ago) that could keep up. Everything else maxed out at like 300mbps. unless you're constantly downloading steam games it's not worth it. But if you're doing that you're probably better off getting a bigger hard drive or a steam cache server. otherwise it only might be worth it if you have a lot of bandwidth hog people on your network
>>106729251updating game console is maybe 20min @ 100Mbps maybe 2min @ 1Gbps think about it
I've only gone as high as 350, but these days I pay less for 50. Sure, when I have to download 100gb it's annoying and takes a day, but it's very rare for me to be in a situation where I can't wait 5 minutes for a download.
>>106729503>IPv6 solution at arms reach>no, let's just kill everyone instead
>>106729759You can easily test that by testing the speed between you and some friend's computer that doesn't live too far away.
>>106729251It depends on your use case entirely, most servers can barely accommodate for 1GBPs while sending you files.
>>106729503>Daily reminder CGNAT is deployed because normalfags and browns overwhelm the amount of IPv4.It's corporations hoarding those, what are you even complaining about?
>>106729503If you genocide all of the brown people there still wouldn't be enough IPv4 to go around.The solution is IPv6.
>>106729817>Soon I'm moving to BelgiumI'm so fucking sorry.
>>106729476fast.com is super unreliable for me. I.e. now it shows that it's downloading at 30mbps, even though I can open up Steam and start a dl which will go up to 800mbps easily. Likewise I've also had situations where it claimed that I'm downloading at 2gbps when my hardware can physically only do 1gbps.
>>106734957Same here. Fast.com is shit.
>>106734957NBASE-T can actually give 5Gbit speeds (depending on device and cable), plus ISPs are known to include some headroom for burst data using double token bucket policers. No explanation for 2Gbit/s, unless you also have absolutely horrible ping and latency.
>>106736587I've got 2.5GbE NICs along the entire chain, anything over 2.5gbps is testing error. You're not magically going to go beyond 2.5gbps on a PHY designed for 2.5gbps. Same with 1GbE. It's literally impossible for it to ever burst above 1000mbps.
>>106729410Woah 25+mbps? That's a hefty 2.5% of your gigabit connection!
>>106737251>if I ignore the part about the speed while filling the small buffer my argument will sound betterNo, you still sound retarded.
>>106737394Getting a few seconds of extra buffer for a connection speed that won't reach the buffer anyway. This is surely worth the cost. Thank you ISP!
>>106737923Sure, but i'm not the one who brought up using youtube as a supposed good test for ISP speeds.
>>106729266i get about 2.5gbps from steam, and huggingface usually caps my bw at about 8gbps
>>106729251I've had gigabit down for a long time. It's really only noticable for work and research stuff; I have to download about a terabyte a month of experimental data, and gigabit makes that palatable. Other stuff barely uses the bandwidth at all, though it's nice when it does (like updates and whatever).If you're basically using the internet to game and watch tv then gigabit probably isn't worth it at all.
