<story><title>25 Gbit/s at home, part 1</title><url>https://boredengineer.medium.com/25-gbit-s-at-home-part-1-98ff1013e32d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgtweak</author><text>Recently moved up to 3gbps bidirectional and had a hell of a time getting 3gbps even with 10gbps network card directly into the 10gbps port on the ISP-provided modem.  In addition to this, there are very few services that will actually feed you data at 3gbps.&lt;p&gt;Steam - ~280MB&amp;#x2F;s (2.2gbps)&lt;p&gt;Battle.net launcher - ~140MB&amp;#x2F;s (1.1gbps)&lt;p&gt;25GB Torrent with 1000+ seeders - ~70MB&amp;#x2F;s (~560mbps)&lt;p&gt;2GB iso from github - ~80MB&amp;#x2F;s  (~650mbps)&lt;p&gt;fast.com - 1.4gbps&lt;p&gt;speedtest.net - 2.7gbps (using ISPs endpoint 2ms away)&lt;p&gt;Using a download manager like IDM or jDownloader will help for http downloads, but most hosts will limit your speed even with 16 connections open.  I&amp;#x27;ve managed to see 2gbps moving data to&amp;#x2F;from servers (scp) with softether configured to use 16 connections.  The reality is with a single connection (majority of ssl transfers) you&amp;#x27;ll be limited by the sending side in almost all cases.&lt;p&gt;Overall it seems that while you can get connected and run an iperf to your ISP or multi-connection speedtest to a server hosted by your ISP or peered with your ISP, you&amp;#x27;ll be pretty much limited to &amp;lt;1gbps speeds regardless of your home network throughput.&lt;p&gt;Knowing this I would have simply went multi-gig (2.5g) for all in-home networking and saved a good chunk of change on networking equipment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>virtuallynathan</author><text>I just upgraded to 10GbE service from Ziply Fiber in the Seattle area:&lt;p&gt;Speedtest.net - ~9.3Gbps symmetric&lt;p&gt;iperf to Denver: ~9.3Gbps symmetric (~8 threads)&lt;p&gt;iperf to Minneapolis: ~9.3Gbps symmetric&lt;p&gt;AWS S3 Download with small files: 1.3Gbps&lt;p&gt;Usenet download: 7-9.5Gbps&lt;p&gt;Mounting my ZFS pool to an AWS instance via SMBv3 in us-west-2: 3Gbps (not clear what the limit was here)&lt;p&gt;GitHub (400MB): 1 thread 400Mbps, 16 threads: 3.3Gbps&lt;p&gt;Fedora ISO from local mirror: 1 thread: 1.4Gbps, 16 threads:  4Gbps&lt;p&gt;Will try to test Steam and such.</text></comment>
<story><title>25 Gbit/s at home, part 1</title><url>https://boredengineer.medium.com/25-gbit-s-at-home-part-1-98ff1013e32d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tgtweak</author><text>Recently moved up to 3gbps bidirectional and had a hell of a time getting 3gbps even with 10gbps network card directly into the 10gbps port on the ISP-provided modem.  In addition to this, there are very few services that will actually feed you data at 3gbps.&lt;p&gt;Steam - ~280MB&amp;#x2F;s (2.2gbps)&lt;p&gt;Battle.net launcher - ~140MB&amp;#x2F;s (1.1gbps)&lt;p&gt;25GB Torrent with 1000+ seeders - ~70MB&amp;#x2F;s (~560mbps)&lt;p&gt;2GB iso from github - ~80MB&amp;#x2F;s  (~650mbps)&lt;p&gt;fast.com - 1.4gbps&lt;p&gt;speedtest.net - 2.7gbps (using ISPs endpoint 2ms away)&lt;p&gt;Using a download manager like IDM or jDownloader will help for http downloads, but most hosts will limit your speed even with 16 connections open.  I&amp;#x27;ve managed to see 2gbps moving data to&amp;#x2F;from servers (scp) with softether configured to use 16 connections.  The reality is with a single connection (majority of ssl transfers) you&amp;#x27;ll be limited by the sending side in almost all cases.&lt;p&gt;Overall it seems that while you can get connected and run an iperf to your ISP or multi-connection speedtest to a server hosted by your ISP or peered with your ISP, you&amp;#x27;ll be pretty much limited to &amp;lt;1gbps speeds regardless of your home network throughput.&lt;p&gt;Knowing this I would have simply went multi-gig (2.5g) for all in-home networking and saved a good chunk of change on networking equipment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>supergeek</author><text>The bigger benefit of all of that bandwidth is going to be multiple users. If you work from home and have a big family, or just live with a few roommates you&amp;#x27;re going to be seeing huge quality of service improvements from one person not being able to tank the whole connection.</text></comment>