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[Stainless]

I have just signed up with a new company Hyperoptic.

They have supplied me a 1Gig broadband connection for £37 a month.

If they are in your area, it is a really good idea to have a look at them.

My dev machine is on the 5 gig wireless network and I get this.




Seriously, that would make a hell of a difference to your game playing experience. Hell some might even call it cheating 

[Mick]

 ... with such a speed, your bullets will hit the ennemy even before he has fastened his harness prior to take off ...! 

A friend of mine has got 900+ Mbps, and this is impressive when downloading or also for 4K TV ...! 

I "only" have around 100 Mbps ... 

[SAS~Storebror]

They have supplied me a 1Gig broadband connection for £37 a month.

The advertised prices are somewhat higher (£48 for 1 Gig without phone) but still comparably low.
My local provider offers 1Gig lines at 100€ per month (roughly £90), phone flat and HDTV included (you can't get it without), but not synchroneously, the upload is 200MBps "only".

this is impressive when downloading or also for 4K TV ...! 

I "only" have around 100 Mbps ... 

You only need about 15-25MBps for 4K TV, depending on the provider (Amazon 15, Netflix 25).
There's no real use case for 1Gig connections on a private level yet.
Which doesn't mean that there won't be any within the coming 5 years.


Mike

[Stainless]

For me it has become essential.

I have to upload 550 Gigs of game source and data to a perforce server in Stockholm. 

I will run a network cable to the router for that job...

[SAS~Storebror]

Such things I leave to my Synology NAS to deal with over night


Mike

[Mick]

this is impressive when downloading or also for 4K TV ...! 

I "only" have around 100 Mbps ... 

You only need about 15-25MBps for 4K TV, depending on the provider (Amazon 15, Netflix 25).
There's no real use case for 1Gig connections on a private level yet.
Which doesn't mean that there won't be any within the coming 5 years.


Mike

... yep, I know, well at least this is what Netflix and Amazon Prime Video advertise in order to lure more customers, but especially in the evening/night, when everybody is home watching TV, you often get freezes and macroblocking if you only (theoretically) have 15/25 MBps in 4K (+ HDR or Dolby Vision now available) ... 

900 MBps is very interesting if you DL heavy stuff, like several GigaMb films for ex ... 

[SAS~Storebror]

But that evening issue is due to overloaded network segments, not because your (promised) bandwidth is insufficient.
Raising the promised level doesn't help much in that case.


Mike

[Mick]

 ... ah, OK, I thought the more bandwidth you had, the more was left, when the network was overloaded ... 

[SAS~Storebror]

Not quite.
Segment overload happens whenever there's some shared media involved, such as Cable (Coax) Internet.
DSL on the other hand is not a shared media (and fiber isn't anyway).
If you suffer from reduced bandwidth at evening hours and have a Cable (Coax) Internet connection, then most likely you suffer from segmentation overload and in that case, it won't help you to have a higher artificial capped level because your segment doesn't even offer your current one anymore.
In contrast, if you have DSL or fiber connection and the speed drops during peak times, then it's because your ISP excessively overbooked the available network bandwidth in total.
All ISPs overbook their lines, some more, some less.
In such situations, it depends on the load balancing strategy of your ISP whether he'll just cap everyone to the same max. speed, or whether you get a certain percentage of what has been promised to you.


Mike

[Mick]

... many THX for your explanations, now I understand why, even with fiber connection, you may suffer from too many people on the same tube at the same time ...