I was entirely surprised recently in Romania , when I was getting 590 Mps. It made the video edit and upload much much less painful.
The difference of 50M and 500M was astonishing On Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 5:57 AM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >
