Comments on: FiOS speeds: how much is too much? http://journal.drfaulken.com/fios-speeds-how-much-is-too-much/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:20:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Telephone Cable http://journal.drfaulken.com/fios-speeds-how-much-is-too-much/comment-page-1/#comment-44258 Telephone Cable Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:58:40 +0000 http://journal.drfaulken.com/?p=805#comment-44258 I agree with BushPutin. You’ll probably max out at about 14Mbps assuming that your disk can write fast enough anything that might be held in cache or your TCP buffers going to your app. your matter of 20/50! is not enough to do all above you said. how things have changed in the last thirteen years.I think it might be your fate only. I agree with BushPutin. You’ll probably max out at about 14Mbps assuming that your disk can write fast enough anything that might be held in cache or your TCP buffers going to your app. your matter of 20/50! is not enough to do all above you said.

how things have changed in the last thirteen years.I think it might be your fate only.

]]> By: BushPutin http://journal.drfaulken.com/fios-speeds-how-much-is-too-much/comment-page-1/#comment-43174 BushPutin Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:51:13 +0000 http://journal.drfaulken.com/?p=805#comment-43174 It also depends on who 'serially' you download anything. Most likely (even if you have two systems going) if you are doing two simultaneous downloads of large files, you are likely to never hit the 20Mbps anyway. You'll probably max out at about 14Mbps assuming that your disk can write fast enough anything that might be held in cache or your TCP buffers going to your app. Maybe you should check out MRTG and SNMP (pretty simple) and see if you can get stats from your most external interface (say...the thing that hooks you to FiOS) and check our what your min/max/average network utilization even looks like. Basically, (from the description you gave), it's most likely geek bragging rights. -B It also depends on who ’serially’ you download anything. Most likely (even if you have two systems going) if you are doing two simultaneous downloads of large files, you are likely to never hit the 20Mbps anyway. You’ll probably max out at about 14Mbps assuming that your disk can write fast enough anything that might be held in cache or your TCP buffers going to your app.

Maybe you should check out MRTG and SNMP (pretty simple) and see if you can get stats from your most external interface (say…the thing that hooks you to FiOS) and check our what your min/max/average network utilization even looks like.

Basically, (from the description you gave), it’s most likely geek bragging rights.

-B

]]> By: roclar http://journal.drfaulken.com/fios-speeds-how-much-is-too-much/comment-page-1/#comment-43157 roclar Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:50:43 +0000 http://journal.drfaulken.com/?p=805#comment-43157 Seems like 5/20 is more then enough bandwith to sustain gaming and the average web services. You could probably even downgrade the connection and not even notice a change in those activities. The questions is how much video/audio do you download and how fast do you want it? Given how little I download, I'd be very content at 5/20 for $55 a month (as I am already paying about that for cable now :S). Unless I really get into retrieving video in some form online, I don't see any reason in spending more the $60 a month for internet service. Seems like 5/20 is more then enough bandwith to sustain gaming and the average web services. You could probably even downgrade the connection and not even notice a change in those activities. The questions is how much video/audio do you download and how fast do you want it?

Given how little I download, I’d be very content at 5/20 for $55 a month (as I am already paying about that for cable now :S). Unless I really get into retrieving video in some form online, I don’t see any reason in spending more the $60 a month for internet service.

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