There are multiple ISPs that offer 10Gbps Internet service in Japan and South Korea, I imagine other densely populated cities might have them also. There is also the Swiss ISP that offers 25Gbps Internet service since 2021.
Realistically with my 1Gb connection, it’s always the outside restricting speeds. I seem to get the speed I pay for but every download or stream is throttled
Steam downloads consistently saturate my 1 Gbps connection, but it’s still fast enough for me. Had it a year now, still not really used to things going that fast.
I’m backing up my physical media so I pretty regularly move hundreds of GB around. That would take forever on a 1G network.
I also take a ton of GoPro video(skydiving/motorcycle). An hour of 360 footage is ~50GB. So just moving that around is cumbersome.
I have a 5G fiber connection and even my wireless access point(AP) is 10G. Sure, you can’t get that to a single device(WiFi) but my phone connects at 2.4G up/down. So ~3 modern phones downloading games or whatever has the possibility to saturate my internet connection. They could saturate the AP by downloading media from my backups for offline playback for a flight or whatever.
I connect my primary and backup servers on 10G directly via a crossover cable for transferring ZFS snapshots. No actual 10G switches or anything at the moment but if I add any more servers I need to back up I’ll probably get a small 10G switch to put in between.
I do have 10 Gbps, I pay $35/mo here in Japan (not even a big city like Tokyo, this is a depopulating, rural capitol)
More importantly, even my 5 year old, 4-bay spinning rust Synology NAS can saturate 2.5 Gbps copying files. With soldered storage in modern machines, faster networking is cheaper than replacing my whole machine
Serious question: What do you use a 10GbE adapter for? Are there ISPs which offer 10gigabit bandwidth? I suppose it would be useful on a LAN
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LAN for sure.
There are multiple ISPs that offer 10Gbps Internet service in Japan and South Korea, I imagine other densely populated cities might have them also. There is also the Swiss ISP that offers 25Gbps Internet service since 2021.
Though I agree it is probably more used for LANs.
Old meme is old. I’m in Central Wyoming with reasonably priced 2Gb/s FTTH and I could order 10Gb/s if I wanted it.
Example of an ISP providing 10Gb/s in Portugal here and at 15 euros a month it’s pretty cheap too.
That same ISP is from Romania and is also in Spain though curiously in this latter their Net Only 10Gb/s subscription costs €25 per month,
Personally I don’t see the point of it for myself at home, but for a small business I can see it making sense.
ISPs in Switzerland offer up to 10 or 25Gbit over fiber.
https://www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/
But even within a LAN it really allows using a NAS for anything, not just slow access data.
8gbps here in USA… Quantum fiber.
I know of a few others in my area as well… Google Fiber, AT&T is offering 5gbps I think… Wyyerd is a local-ish one that’s offering 8gbps…
Yeah, imagine a network backup system that could actually back up your 20 TB media center in a few hours rather than several days.
In the Netherlands there’s a few ISPs offering 4Gb and one even 8Gb iirc. Personally can’t really think of a use case for that though.
Realistically with my 1Gb connection, it’s always the outside restricting speeds. I seem to get the speed I pay for but every download or stream is throttled
Steam downloads consistently saturate my 1 Gbps connection, but it’s still fast enough for me. Had it a year now, still not really used to things going that fast.
Bro, tell that my German table first.
I’m backing up my physical media so I pretty regularly move hundreds of GB around. That would take forever on a 1G network.
I also take a ton of GoPro video(skydiving/motorcycle). An hour of 360 footage is ~50GB. So just moving that around is cumbersome.
I have a 5G fiber connection and even my wireless access point(AP) is 10G. Sure, you can’t get that to a single device(WiFi) but my phone connects at 2.4G up/down. So ~3 modern phones downloading games or whatever has the possibility to saturate my internet connection. They could saturate the AP by downloading media from my backups for offline playback for a flight or whatever.
I connect my primary and backup servers on 10G directly via a crossover cable for transferring ZFS snapshots. No actual 10G switches or anything at the moment but if I add any more servers I need to back up I’ll probably get a small 10G switch to put in between.
My ISP (Bouygues, in France) offers 8Gbps at no additional cost over 1Gbps.