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0 pointsfulafel5y ago0 comments

We have had well working 100 Gbit Ethernet for about 8 years now. It's been trickling down in recent years: https://www.servethehome.com/mellanox-connectx-5-vpi-100gbe-... (meanwhile the high end is at 200G/400G now for nics and switches respectively)

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bullen5y ago· 4 in thread

Sure I was talking for the home... most people can't afford $20.000 routers or fiber.

I'm prepared to say that unless they can cram 10Gb/s into existing fiber (without increasing fixed- or energy- costs too much) we're stuck at 1Gb/s... forever!

CyberDildonics5y ago

Anyone with $40 USD can buy a used 10gb ethernet card and wire it with cat6.

I don't know why you think there is some 'limit of thermodynamics' or that someone needs to 'invent new physics'.

Every computer for 15 years has come with a 1gb ethernet port.

2.5gb usb ethernet dongles are $30 USD and can be hooked into a $35 rasberry pi. A 2.5gb switch is around $120.

I don't know where you got these ideas, but they wouldn't have made sense two decades ago, let alone today.

bullen5y ago

You again?

Are you stalking me?

Do you know how bad your username is?

How hard would it be for me to get you banned?

You don't want to see that hard worked 2000+ karma go up in smoke!

Because then you cannot downvote.

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fulafelOP5y ago

Fiber cabling is as cheap as copper. But yep 10/25/40 gbe gear is cheaper. Though many have sub 1g internet connectivity and no infra at home and this kind of connectivity is more interesting at a colo.

bullen5y ago

My whole point is that home hosting of servers is the last revolution and I think I can leverage my MMO partly from two home 1Gb/s fibers! You need two for 100% read uptime if one fiber goes down...

Saving on the most costly: CPU, storage and bandwidth costs... I still need big machines in central euro, iowa, asia but then those would only be for latency sensitive real-time networking.

Patch data, the async. database and even two world instances can be hosted at home!

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