Terence EdenVirgin have also upgraded me to Gigabit fibre.
Which, as I wrote a few years ago, is mostly pointless.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/12/whats-the-point-in-gigabit-broadband/
I wonder when gigabit will actually be useful?
What's the point of Gigabit broadband?
(This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years.) My yearly contract with my ISP has just come to an end, so it was time to shop around for a better deal. They presented me with the following monthly options: Drop to 100Mbps for the same price I'm paying today (£44) Keep at 350Mbps for a tenner more (£55) Rise to 500Mbps for a fiver more (£49) Go to GI…
Anyway, if you want stupid fast Internet, sign up using this link and Virgin will both give us £50.
Using iperf, I can get a max of about 940Mbps between machines on my LAN.
I suspect that might be a limit of my router, USB-C Ethernet Hubs, and ancient cabling.
Most Internet speed tests simply can't handle gigabit connections.
Cloudflare's gets to about 900Mbps which I suspect is about as is good as possible.
But the reality is almost no service on the Internet can support gigabit home connections.
Advanced Persistent Teapot@Edent I presumed the use case for it was a household of multiple simultaneous high bandwidth uses, but would even 4 people streaming separate HD TV shows get code to touching the sides?
@http_error_418 Nope. They all say 25MBps is needed for 4K.
Obviously they can fill a buffer faster with a quicker connection. But the bottleneck is more likely to be the WiFi speed in a noisy environment.