i have an opportunity to upgrade from 100 Mb/s home internet to 500 Mb/s for an extra $5/mo or 1 Gb/s for an extra $10/mo. I think 500 Mb is probably worth it but my utility curve is already pretty flat tbh. How much internet can one man possibly consume
@tim you can't launch a game until it finishes updating, so that's 40 minutes of waiting at 500Mbps, only 20 at 1Gbps. A bit less than 9 at 2.5Gbps and 2 at 10G. Meaningful reductions in actual human time spent waiting per update at each tier.
@glyph@tim Can Steam actually saturate your bandwidth like that? I’ve found that many centralised services can’t, especially in Australia. (Kudos to Steam if that’s not the case there though.)
@jni@tim from my network vantage point, I have definitely seen >1Gbps downloads. It can’t saturate the link, but then, reliably saturating the link to anywhere at multigig speeds runs into a tons of bottlenecks related to things like CPUs
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