What frustrated me is I just spent hours downloading an update for Microsoft Flight Simulator as it wouldn't go over 200Mbit. I've seen Steam do 700Mbit also on Three 5G. Usenet tends to do 500Mbit but I've seen reports of it going well over Gigabit with the right providers (I know one of my accounts has a 300Mbit cap).
Ouch. At some point I need to check out that game. From what I've seen it looks highly impressive and realistic. Yeah with Usenet it will depend a bit on which provider(s) you use as well as the plan that you have with them. I think I use three different providers myself, ensuring they don't share the same backbone or w/e. One is unlimited access subscription while the others are purely failovers so they have prepaid data usage.
The benefit of Gigabit in a multi-person household though is mostly down to the fact it IS hard to max out. Ideally you'd always want your connection to be faster than you can use, so nobody ever noticed service problems, especially if anyone is gaming.
Yeah definitely. That said, I still have some fairly basic QoS rules to ensure something or someone can't abuse the heck out of the connection to the point it disrupts everything or everyone else here. Prioritisation is mostly based on packet size, ACK's or DNS queries. Works well for me.
Interestingly my VPS is supposed to be provisioned on Gigabit but I'm lucky if it can do half that over Three 5G.
I take it that it's able to do gigabit generally at some other places? If so then I guess there's some similarity here with my connection and my dedicated server on OVH.
It struggles to do about 500 megabits generally from the dedicated server to my connection - can be lower than that at peak time. However, if I make it take a different route such as making a VPN connection when I recently tried out Voxility (using their internet access as 'premium' level on my server with them) then I generally get full gigabit from the dedicated server to my connection no matter what time of day from what I can see.