Interwebs outside the UK
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Small update... new wifi boxes arrived today. Not quite the throughput I was hoping for, but a good improvement.
Under as similar as practicable testing conditions:
EWS377AP
EWS357AP
Similar throughput on 2019 MBP... will be curious to see how the M1 performs when it finally arrives.
Under as similar as practicable testing conditions:
EWS377AP
EWS357AP
Similar throughput on 2019 MBP... will be curious to see how the M1 performs when it finally arrives.
This is our work, barely touching that 1gigabit haha! Don't understand why the UK is so slow...
My uncle over in HK was running speeds of around 600Mb/s on his home network! Think the average there is around 300Mb/s! Mind boggling why the UK is so slow.
It took nearly 10 years for my dads area to get Fibre lol and its a well built up area with office buildings.
My uncle over in HK was running speeds of around 600Mb/s on his home network! Think the average there is around 300Mb/s! Mind boggling why the UK is so slow.
It took nearly 10 years for my dads area to get Fibre lol and its a well built up area with office buildings.
In the places I sometimes work, I meet loads of people who simply cannot afford even £20/month for a 40/20Mbps fixed line broadband connection. Their only connected device is their PAYG mobile phone and they hunt for free WiFi to conserve data.
It's not that faster broadband isn't available, quite often it's people simply don't buy it.
I'm abit of a bargain hunter so i never settle for the price they show, im managing a fairly decent 250Mb/s virgin line for £28 atm which is okay for me and my needs. Like you say though, i do save where i can but usually finding the best deals even if it takes abit of effort is well worth the savings in the long run.
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...2-completes-uk-gigabit-broadband-rollout.html
"As a result of all this Virgin Media has, in a fairly short amount of time (2 years), put all 15.5 million of their covered premises within reach of gigabit-capable broadband download speeds."
A default pfsense+10G set-up will max out at about 8.9-9.3Gb/s in the real world. TNSR may do fractionally more, but I have no interest in using closed source software from a company that thinks it’s OK to outsource my security to people with horrible documented histories of violence, intimidation, racism, bail jumping, international extradition, felony convictions and arguably worst of all in this context, writing awful code.
I haven’t tested OPN, but I would expect similar numbers.
I haven’t tested OPN, but I would expect similar numbers.
Can you not get Starlink?
Outside of synthetic testing, it’s not a problem I have unfortunately. Now if a certain alt-net builds a few miles further up north, or I convince the wife she really wants to relocate a few miles further south to Durham, then symmetrical 10Gb would be available at a reasonable price and I would happily deal with that issue
Of course they can. This is an example of the point I was trying to make above. A fast service is available but it's hard to justify unless you NEED it. And most people don't NEED it. It's something like £600 for the starter kit (plus installation costs for the dish and cabling) and then £80-ish an month after that. And it's only 150Mbps which is 4G speeds and you can get decent 4G in France for £25/month. And people won't even pay for that.
The services are there but people don't really NEED that speed so they're generally not prepared to pauper themselves for a fast download once or twice a week.
The Swiss Telekom service in the OP is cheap and fast (where they can supply it) but even at £50/month I don't think they'd get a lot of takers for a 10GbE service in UK homes. Most people are quite happy to spend £20 and get the cheaper services from EE, Vodafone or TalkTalk. They just need something workable rather than something FAST.
I've still yet to hear a real-world use-case for a 10GbE symmetrical link in a domestic setting. Even with working from home.
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I'd be fine with that... provider says only to expect 8/8 actual throughput anyway.
Heh. I posted about that on /r/homelab a month or two ago. Nice for those who can get it, and cheap too (especially as it includes an IPTV package).
This is a presentation from the team behind that explaining the reasoning
Should be noted that the switch shares 200Gb of uplink capacity between 48 subscriber ports so they're still 'only' able to guarantee about 4.2Gbps to each subscriber in the worst case scenario (knowing nothing else about what sits beyond the access layer). There's a photo later of 2x 100Gb switches using two uplinks which would then mean that 288 (6*48) subscribers were then sharing a 200Gb link to the core, which brings that figure down to 690Mbps per subscriber. It's very unlikely that everybody tries to max their connections out at the same time, but it feels relevant seeing as they were bringing up the oversubscription of PON services earlier in the video.
Should be noted that the switch shares 200Gb of uplink capacity between 48 subscriber ports so they're still 'only' able to guarantee about 4.2Gbps to each subscriber in the worst case scenario (knowing nothing else about what sits beyond the access layer). There's a photo later of 2x 100Gb switches using two uplinks which would then mean that 288 (6*48) subscribers were then sharing a 200Gb link to the core, which brings that figure down to 690Mbps per subscriber. It's very unlikely that everybody tries to max their connections out at the same time, but it feels relevant seeing as they were bringing up the oversubscription of PON services earlier in the video.
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That's pretty awesome... I wasn't aware of it. Checked though and not available here yet.
So the new NICs arrived a day early... buuuuuuut, I can't use them yet
I tried, but they are definitely not designed to operate passively... overheated incredibly quickly.
I have another server on order, I should be able to piggyback off it when it arrives...
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No... I've already done over 100TB & that was over a couple of days
I doubt you're a particle physicist working from home so I'll just say there is zero chance that a household could generate 100TB of legitimate traffic in a couple of days. If you're just buying a fast connection so you can buy servers and then buy hard drives to store movies on I do have to wonder what the point of it all is.
For me the value of a fast connection would be the ability to download or upload a few hundred GB quickly so I can get on with other things, it would sit idle 99% of the time.
For me the value of a fast connection would be the ability to download or upload a few hundred GB quickly so I can get on with other things, it would sit idle 99% of the time.