It has come to my attention that some people think they need 5 gigabit fibre internet.
I am delighted to inform them that they do not. Stop wasting your money on bandwidth you canโt even fucking use, muppets.
You see your 4K smart TV what streams Netflix in Dolby ear destroyer 4K HDR supervision? Itโs got a 100 megabit Ethernet port on it. Bet you.
You donโt fucking need 5 gigabits. Nobody does unless theyโre running fucking Amazon from their front room or something.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •Netflix: Hi! You, middle aged people most positioned to have disposable income for premium products: we will charge you extra for 4K.
CANโT FUCKING SEE 4K, YOU DAFT BUGGERS.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Some people need high speeds because they're sharing/uploading content. For instance, I have a 750 Mbit/s plan. I don't need 750, but it's the cheapest plan that has 100 Mbit/s upload.
and unlike me, some folks share a lot of content via torrents, so i imagine they would be intetested in 5 Gbit/s
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in reply to Sieva ๐ด๐๐๏ธ๐น • •@Sieva ๐ด๐๐๏ธ๐น Iโm running an entire fediverse server on 500/100 and it barely notices.
And a VPS is a damn site cheaper than wiring your house up with 10 gig switches that youโd need to even take advantage of such a connection.
Itโs absurd.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I don't think that a fedi server requires a wide channel, unless it's some kind of media hosting.
Eh I don't know about it being cheaper. If you need a large storage and unlimited traffic it could easily be more expensive than just getting a few SSDs and a switch (but the ISP is probably providing one anyway) once than paying $$$ every month.
Back to your point, yeah you don't need 5 Gbit/s if all you do is hosting a Masto server and watching Netflix. But it's not always the case.
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