February 10, 2010

Don't tempt me

Anyone interested in a gigabit pipe into your home?

I'm not sure that would really make any difference. Nothing out there will serve data at anything like those kinds of speeds. The fastest sites I visit don't saturate my link and it isn't remotely as fast as that. (I think it's 12 megabits.)

UPDATE: Google also just introduced their own social networking package called "Buzz". Rusty says it sucks blows. What he wants is an anti-social network. (Um, may I introduce you to "Something Awful"?)

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1 Steve, there's never enough bandwidth for pr0n and anime download.

Posted by: BigFire at February 10, 2010 04:02 PM (Kwn4z)

2 While it's tough to find a single server that's up to the job, a user of a gigabit pipe can leech and seed hundreds of torrents at once.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at February 10, 2010 04:02 PM (/ppBw)

3 I have a 100 mbit connection myself, and while it is true that you won't notice the difference on most website, you can with most games, downloads and torrents. I can seed torrents at 5 MB/s and still get a ping of 5 when playing online games.

Posted by: Jordi Vermeulen at February 10, 2010 04:08 PM (5EMw1)

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Microsoft can (sometimes) saturate my 20Mbps download speed.  They're one of the few places that can manage it with a single transfer, though.  I'm seeing more and more large download sites that can feed a single file at 4-5Mbps.

Also:  "buzz" ?  That's a Microsoft-worthy name!

Posted by: RickC at February 10, 2010 05:56 PM (iy4XZ)

5 I have ~20mbits down and ~2mbits up.  Down is plenty fast.  Up, I can use all I can get.

If I lived in the US and could get a gigabit link to my house, I'd jump on it and run mee.nu out of the spare bedroom.  The server costs I currently pay are equivalent to a nice new PC every month...

And yeah, Buzz is godawful.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at February 10, 2010 06:23 PM (PiXy!)

6 I'm pretty happy with my Comcast speeds here in eastern PA, but I could always use more, especially for uploading -- my offsite backups are quite slow.  And I wouldn't mind a little more download speed, mainly so my Netflix streaming TV and movies always come in at HD quality (now they do ~75% of the time) and for the rare occasion when I download a show or a movie from iTunes, which takes maybe 15 minutes now.

Posted by: AnthonyDiSante at February 10, 2010 11:31 PM (xJ4r5)

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