On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 7:02 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 08:26:21AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > I need to download ~15G of data from a web site. Using a PLUG mail list > > Apropos of not much, when I first got on this crazy > [...] I will "soon" install 100/100 Mbps Ziply fiber for > $20/month. I could upgrade to 2000/2000 Mbps (I don't > need that much, I don't stream movies) for $70/month. > > That's one minute to move 15 gigabytes. > Two observations: a) the bandwidth your plan claims does not factor in the speed at which the rest of the internet will deliver bits to you (even assuming the ISP isn't exaggerating), my experience has been that it is *rare* (not impossible) for actual real world services on the internet to actually feed you at significant fractions of gigabit speeds (often around 30Mbps) even on my supposedly gigabit fiber service. About 5% of the time I'm surprised by something faster. Speed test sites are the exception. I suspect shenanigans between the ISPs and the speed test sites. b) streaming movies (or, video in general) is not actually very intensive from a bandwidth point of view. You can watch streaming media comfortably in a few Mbps. The most demanding thing most people do on the internet is probably interactive meetings, where latency is very important. -- Russell Senior [email protected]
