How much bandwidth?

[Shrek]

How much bandwidth to the outside world do you need versus how much do you have?

I was fortunate enough to have 100 Mbps and it seems more than I actually need; if it was an option to save money, I would choose slower.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
All I can say is if you go from 900+ mbps to 100-+ mbps you notice the change

 

[P4-630]

I have 150 down now , prices will go up by about 2 EUROs per July but then I get a speedbump to 200 down from my ISP.

 

[Volvo240]

200Mbps download, like 15Mpbs upload. I would love to have 1Gbit. Our router probably can't handle that though XD

 

[P4-630]

Back in 2003 I had my first ADSL broadband connection , no wifi back then and a superfast 2mbps!!
I was used to dial-up but now was able to use the internet 24/7 if I wanted without additional costs!!

 

[Splinterdog]

Back in 2003 I had my first ADSL broadband connection , no wifi back then and a superfast 2mbps!!
I was used to dial-up but now was able to use the internet 24/7 if I wanted without additional costs!!

We also had ADSL back then with British Telecom and you could double the speed by joining two lines or something, but then you got charged twice if I remember correctly.
We also have 100Mbps which is perfectly fine for the time being.

 

[Shrek]

My provider recently moved me from 100 Mbps to 200-300 Mbps (for the same price) but it doesn't make a great difference in practice; they have a 30 Mbps option which I'm not allowed, but if it ever becomes a (cheaper) option, I am wondering if I should take it.

We have a competitor laying fiber and such competition may give me options.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Lower you go the more you notice speed changes

Fiber hell you're in giga land hard to slow that shit down

 

[Rhein7]

Have 40/7 mbps here in SE Asia for around $23 per month. For regular browsing/streaming is enough I guess but only got like 25 mbps from Steam so it feels like a chore if I want to download 20+ GB games which are increasingly common nowadays. :/

 

[eidairaman1]

We also had ADSL back then with British Telecom and you could double the speed by joining two lines or something, but then you got charged twice if I remember correctly.
We also have 100Mbps which is perfectly fine for the time being.

It was called Pair Bonding which was used by VDSL in 2013, Idk if anyone does it anymore because there is Vectoring and ofc fiber.

My provider recently moved me from 100 Mbps to 200-300 Mbps (for the same price) but it doesn't make a great difference in practice; they have a 30 Mbps option which I'm not allowed, but if it ever becomes a (cheaper) option, I am wondering if I should take it.

We have a competitor laying fiber and such competition may give me options.

Well see what they offer in price and if your current company won't budge then they lose a customer.

 

[GerKNG]

1000/50 + landline and free modem.
39,99€ per month (permanently)
i really like it especially with game sizes these days. downloading with around 120MB/s is insane

 

[phill]

I've been recently very lucky with a fibre upgrade and install into my home, so I've gone from a 30/5 FTTC connection to a 950/200 FTTP connection and jesus wow... the difference is unreal and seeing download speeds from Steam as an example instead of 3.5MB to 4MB/sec to 118MB/sec (the fastest so far) its a night and day thing. I'm actually paying less for the full fibre connection as well, so, win win I say.

I believe the price is fixed forever but for 2 years, it doesn't go up via cost of living or whatever you'd like to call it as I'm very happy and lucky

However, I have had to upgrade my home network now on a few PCs since with my 1Gb wired network and now the 950Mb or 1Gb (not miles off) I do find my downloads slow down when doing a network transfer and downloading online, so 10Gb is the way forward. This setup is a bit of a stop gap for the moment but its amazing to see 1GB/sec transfer rates over your network

 

[cvaldes]

The bandwidth I need and the bandwidth I have seems to have matched for many years despite being on a pretty ghetto DSL connection.

Fiber is not available in my condo complex and I despite the local cable monopoly (Comcast Xfinity) which I used for a couple of years.

It is worth pointing out that

Have ≠ Need ≠ Want

Sure, I'd love one of those crazy fast fiber connections consumers in South Korea and Japan enjoy but I am not paying hundreds of US dollars for such a connection.

As far as I can tell, U.S. cellular service and broadband Internet service are massively overpriced. I realize that much of this has to do with the lack of U.S. federal government subsidies.

Fifty years ago, the United States of America had the best telecommunications infrastructure on the planet. Today, the USA is no longer the leader due to lack of prioritization by the government in categorizing Internet access as a basic need.

 

[austinrider]

Lucky they recently lit up our neighborhood with City owned fiber ran all the way into the house. For $60/mo, 1gbit/1gbit service and no data cap it's unbeatable. Pretty cool for being about 50mi North of Denver!

 

[Icon Charlie]

Here is what I can say on going from 175 mps to 600 mps while playing Overwatch. +5 Fps difference. And that is all. It does not matter how much you get down the line if you have your usual choke points. Things are not going to matter that much.

I say for most of my life I've been doing fine with under 200 mps. I only had to upgrade my cable package because I was pretty much forced too.

The extra bandwidth is when you have multiple items going on at the same time.

Years ago there was software that did regulate packet sharing as well as packet compression down the line.

 

[bonehead123]

shhhh....

Although my account is supposed to be a 150 down/15 up, I just ran 5x speedtests, and got an avg of 242.16 down, 21.07 up, for my $80/mo...

And I be downloadin multiple fairly big files from the office PDQ (100-900GB each), as well as streamin my tunes & browsin da net too

Would I like a faster connection ? sure.... but for now, I seem to have sufficient bandwidth for my needs.

 

[eidairaman1]

Lucky they recently lit up our neighborhood with City owned fiber ran all the way into the house. For $60/mo, 1gbit/1gbit service and no data cap it's unbeatable. Pretty cool for being about 50mi North of Denver!

So how is the modem hooked up inside? Ethernet or Fiber because the ONT is fiber and typically to ethernet for the modem itself

 

[austinrider]

So how is the modem hooked up inside? Ethernet or Fiber because the ONT is fiber and typically to ethernet for the modem itself

Fiber from the sandbox streetside all the way into the house/ONT where the structured wiring enclosure with copper ethernet leads out to the rest of the place.

 

[Steevo]

Wireless Ubiquity point to point, slow, and depending on the tower load and how much you stream they might kick your node for 5 minutes and the random ports they block that no one seems to know how to unblock. All for $80 a month. Supposed to be 30/5 but its actually like 25/5, I see them running new fiber up through the hills though......

 

[Shrek]

Good to know that 30 Mbps is probably not going to cut it and I should just stick with what I have.

 

[agent_x007]

I have symmetric 1Gbps over FTTH, and I use 1Gbit wired LAN everywhere with AC Wave2 router.
So, I'm pretty much set until my PCs are able to do 10Gbps I think ?

 

[Sithaer]

I have this in my household currently but to be honest its completely overkill for my needs.


Can get up to 500/30 or so.
Before this we had 100/10 Mbps and I was fine with that, for my use case stability is a lot more important since sometimes I play MMOs and such.
Getting kicked/DCed out of raids,etc is not fun at all or getting killed in Diablo 3 Hardcore mode when I happen to play that is even less fun. 'Had a few close calls already cause of connection issues but I got lucky..'

I guess the only upside of this is that I don't have to care about re DLing bigger games if I have to.

 

[Shrek]

Perhaps it is good that 30 Mbps is not an option for me.

 

[eidairaman1]

Fiber from the sandbox streetside all the way into the house/ONT where the structured wiring enclosure with copper ethernet leads out to the rest of the place

Ok the green line on the nokia looks like fiber, so that looks like your PON-ONT (Passive Optical Network Optical Network Terminal) which goes to ethernet to a Gateway.

I used to do Copper and Fiber Installs in 2013 for AT&T, my Neighborhood is just getting FTTH/FTTP as of last year. I havent found a reason to switch as the copper plant has been good for over 40 years (encapsulated terminals) I'm just wondering how much the designs have progressed.

Get a pic of the nokia unit-just the part number.

do not post the serial #, mac address/ip address.

 

[austinrider]

Ok the green line on the nokia looks like fiber, so that looks like your PON-ONT (Passive Optical Network Optical Network Terminal) which goes to ethernet to a Gateway.

I used to do Copper and Fiber Installs in 2013 for AT&T, my Neighborhood is just getting FTTH/FTTP as of last year. I havent found a reason to switch as the copper plant has been good for over 40 years (encapsulated terminals) I'm just wondering how much the designs have progressed.

Get a pic of the nokia unit-just the part number.

do not post the serial #, mac address/ip address.

It's a Nokia G-010G-A (Nokia 7368 ISAM G-010G-A ONT | Advanced Media Technologies, Inc. (goamt.com)). I opted for just the ONT and have my own router/switches/access-points. They also have an ONT wireless router (AC) but it's already outdated. And charge +$10/mo on that. They also offer 10gig/10gig service but it's overkill and costly at $300/mo.