Is 1gig fiber necessary? - eviltoast

I currently have 300mb fiber and was wondering if 1gig would be worth it. We have 4 PC/laptops, 1 tablet, 4 phones, and about 10 other Internet connected devices. Most devices are on WiFi and seem to get about 50mb to 100mb speed. Would gig Internet really help that out?

  • amboredentertainme@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    If you play call of duty, or any online game, yeah, since these freaking games are going for for like 200 gb’s or more in size nowadays

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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t even matter. I have 400 Mbps and a 10 GB download can take over an hour. Having 1 gig won’t change that. In theory that download should take 25 seconds lol.

      • Notquitearealgirl@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        It does if you’re computer and the server can keep up. Which is generally not going to be the case. I mostly only download games from Steam, but when I use other PC services they don’t saturate it and Playstation network on the ps4 at least several years ago didn’t even come close.

        So ya it mostly doesn’t matter.

      • Chigzy@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        That’s crazy talk, I have 65Mb and 10GB data takes 30 mins to download. With your 400Mb 10GB data would take a handful of minutes at most.