• SuiXi3D
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    28 months ago

    Your download speed being fast or slow doesn’t mean the servers hosting the data you’re accessing or the DNS servers between you and that server are going to feed you data at that speed.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      Game stores like Steam and GOG can provide download speeds of up to 1 Gbps or more, also torrents have no speed limits, it depends on the number of seeders

      • @hperrin
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        18 months ago

        Yeah, I regularly hit about 80MBps (640Mbps) from Steam. I’m pretty close to their San Diego servers, so I get the good pipes. If I was closer, I’d probably be able to hit gigabit speeds.

      • SuiXi3D
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        18 months ago

        Yes, but normal websites might not. There’s no reason to if the amount of data being transferred is so small. Even large transfers, particularly streaming video providers, will have trouble feeding data to you at 1 Gbps simply because the network interface on the server might be saturated, the switch it’s connected to might have a slower CPU, the DNS server might be tossing your data into a queue or have a slower CPU itself. There are SO MANY hops between you and whatever data you’re trying to access, and every one of them influences the speed at which data will get to you. I’m not saying gigabit speeds aren’t worth paying for, but not everyone needs those speeds, especially if their ISP’s hardware isn’t up to snuff.