Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year

anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  E.g., NAS on my LAN, especially for streaming high res video to devices in my house.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    you’re streaming >1Gb worth of video?

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    • mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, no I’m not. You’re right. I miscalculated how much data was needed for video streaming. Even multiple simultaneous hi-res streams should stream fine with 1GbE.

      But as an abstracted idea, you might want high throughput within your LAN for some reaosn, even if an ISP doesn’t offer 10Gbps to your house.

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      • Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I want it cause number is higher…

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      • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        File transfers between devices is one reason. With NVME R/W speeds you can easily saturate 1Gb networking equipment. I think 10Gb is more than most people need most of the time but it would still be nice to have if it weren’t so expensive. I just bought a small 2.5Gb switch to connect my server and PC together since both have 2.5Gb NICs and that seems to be a happy medium.

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  • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My gigabit connection is good enough for my NAS, as the read speeds on the hard drive itself tend to be limited to about a gigabit/s anyway. But I could see some kind of SSD NAS benefiting from a faster LAN connection.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you shell money out for a full-flash NAS, you have the money to buy the bandwidth easily by the truckload.

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• nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  LAN for sure.

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• 1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There are multiple ISPs that offer 10Gbps Internet service in Japan and South Korea, I imagine other densely populated cities might have them also. There is also the Swiss ISP that offers 25Gbps Internet service since 2021.

  Though I agree it is probably more used for LANs.

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• Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Old meme is old. I’m sitting in Central Wyoming with reasonably priced 2Gb/s fiber and I could order 10Gb/s if I wanted it.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Bro, tell that my German table first.

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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Example of an ISP providing 10Gb/s in Portugal here and at 15 euros a month it’s pretty cheap too.

  That same ISP is from Romania and is also in Spain though curiously in this latter thri Net Only 10Gb/s costs €25 per month,

  Personally I don’t see the point of it form myself at home, but for a small business I can see it making sense.

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  ISPs in Switzerland offer up to 10 or 25Gbit over fiber.

  www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/

  But even within a LAN it really allows using a NAS for anything, not just slow access data.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah, imagine a network backup system that could actually back up your 20 TB media center in a few hours rather than a few days.

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• Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In the Netherlands there’s a few ISPs offering 4Gb and one even 8Gb iirc. Personally can’t really think of a use case for that though.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Realistically with my 1Gb connection, it’s always the outside restricting speeds. I seem to get the speed I pay for but every download or stream is throttled

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    • Overspark@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Steam downloads consistently saturate my 1 Gbps connection, but it’s still fast enough for me. Had it a year now, still not really used to things going that fast.

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• PHLAK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I connect my primary and backup servers on 10G directly via a crossover cable for transferring ZFS snapshots. No actual 10G switches or anything at the moment but if I add any more servers I need to back up I’ll probably get a small 10G switch to put in between.

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• kalleboo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  1. I do have 10 Gbps, I pay $35/mo here in Japan (not even a big city like Tokyo, this is a depopulating, rural capitol)
  2. More importantly, even my 5 year old, 4-bay spinning rust Synology NAS can saturate 2.5 Gbps copying files. With soldered storage in modern machines, faster networking is cheaper than replacing my whole machine

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• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My ISP (Bouygues, in France) offers 8Gbps at no additional cost over 1Gbps.

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