• thatradomguy@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    but home Internet is still stuck at Gigabit speeds… and only in some cases are they maybe letting you go to 2 Gb. Wasn’t there that post floating around lemmy a while ago about how China can potentially give everyone like 5Gb for home or something? Can’t find it now but swore it was here…

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      2 hours ago

      ATT Fiber offers 5G for residential, though I’ve seen people posting speedtests of 10G speeds which I’m not sure how they got because it was on the DIY fiber ONT discord lol

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      9 hours ago

      That depends on where you live. I could get 10 Gbit/s WAN if I wanted to pay the subscription for that but 500 Mbit/s is enough.

      Also 10 Gbit/s is mainly useful for LAN. Like connecting to a NAS.

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        5 hours ago

        Yeah, Im excited about the cards but getting a 1GB switch with a 10g uplink was expensive… 10g switches are… a lot.

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        7 hours ago

        I don’t disagree with that. There is almost no benefit to having residential Internet go beyond even 2Gb. Most people don’t realize that or are not shown why and so immediately figure that a bigger number means better experience. I use a 10Mb LAN connection to my Giagabit router at home and the only time I really suffer is when downloading huge files but I end up doing so in the background anyway…

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          7 hours ago

          I use a 10Mb LAN connection to my Giagabit router

          Is that a 10BASE-T connect over two pairs of twisted pair? But even then you’d naively expect Fast Ethernet 100 Mb/s at least. I’m curious what it’s only 10, can you tell us?