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That said though, you really cannot complain when the price of that unlimited, uncapped 10Gbit line is just $36 per month.

Where do you live? That's cheap as hell. 



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NATO said:

So my home internet connection was recently upgraded from a 2gbit down 1gbit up connection via G-PON to a 10gbit down 2.5gbit up connection via XG-PON, while most servers and services don't really have the capacity to push data to me at rates even half that, when doing testing with distributed clients such as torrents, I've been able to hit speeds of 490mb/sec, with the remaining issue being bottlenecking of SATA ssd transfer rates.

To counteract this I recently installed a second SSD in raid0, which pushed the maximum up to roughly 770mb/sec which itself is hit and miss depending on the upstream bandwidth of seeds.

The technician who installed the line provided us with a 10G capable ONU router and two AS-SG10 pcie network cards which support the full 10G link, so the service from network straight to machine is full 10gbit capable, with no managed switch or bonding to worry about, but I digress, the speed is excessive to the point at which even with SSD in raid0, the transfer rates for storage are limiting its throughput.

Today I ordered an Intel 750 NVMe pcie SSD to overcome that and do some more testing!

But really, this line is insanity, asside from the amusement of doing speed tests and experimenting with download speeds, even if I work out the bottlenecks, it'll be (in base case scenario) downloading data at over 1gb/second, which, assuming PSN/XBL were capable of providing (which they are not) and the consoles connected to them had the ability to write at those speeds (they also do not), downloading games of around 60gb would take less than a minute.

It would seem then that the area in which PC's are falling behind in terms of mainstream is with the storage transfer speed, while it's possible to buy NVMe based storage solutions that remedy this, the mainstream still consists of SSD's which average a measily 400mb/sec read/write, with cheaper models being even less than that.

So my analysis of this has been that, while having your own 10Gbit line is fun, technology for mainstream computers is lagging behind the curve, and services that serve up data are also not up to the job of delivering content at such rates, in hindsight had there been a pricing difference between the 2Gbit connection I already had, and the new 10Gbit line, I'd likely have not bothered, because even on the 2gbit line it was rare a service would provide more than around 60mb/sec (which a decent 7200rpm mechanical hdd could handle).

That said though, you really cannot complain when the price of that unlimited, uncapped 10Gbit line is just $36 per month.

That is hella cheap. In my country 4mbps is like 20 USD converted. Even at 60 USD that's a steal. My country really needs to advance its tech and make these thibgs cheaper



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Vor said:
Meanwhile I'm stuck with 10 Mbit. Just a Third World problem.

It's a second world problem at best. Third world problems are hibgwr famine war rule of terrorism. Syria and Somalia are third world countries. Where do you live? I mean even Pakistan and India are second world countries and its a problem here I have 4mbps in my city for the same price as my brother in Karachi who has 20mbps while this guy at 16 dollars more has 10Gbps



Just a guy who doesn't want to be bored. Also

FIT_Gamer said:

That said though, you really cannot complain when the price of that unlimited, uncapped 10Gbit line is just $36 per month.

Where do you live? That's cheap as hell. 

Tokyo



Eagle367 said:
Vor said:
Meanwhile I'm stuck with 10 Mbit. Just a Third World problem.

It's a second world problem at best. Third world problems are hibgwr famine war rule of terrorism. Syria and Somalia are third world countries. Where do you live? I mean even Pakistan and India are second world countries and its a problem here I have 4mbps in my city for the same price as my brother in Karachi who has 20mbps while this guy at 16 dollars more has 10Gbps

Wew second world? I thought we only have first and third world

In that case my country is indeed second world. If my country is at war I wouldn't even bother accessing the Internet, let alone playing games.



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