• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    You need more than10Gb/s at home? I mean we all know the 640Kb meme but I’m curious here :-)

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      16 days ago

      I frequently transfer data over the LAN at a higher rate than my internet connection.

      Kinda wish it was easier to test the connection speed between devices tbh, unless someone knows a good way of doing it but many devices are so locked down I am not sure how you would.

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        16 days ago

        Even when doing that, the bottleneck is the storage write speed. you can have 1Tb internet connection and it wouldn’t matter unless you have enough users in a home.

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          16 days ago

          Not all data transfer is sending stuff to storage, streaming your display live at a high bitrate for example never needs to go into storage.

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            16 days ago

            Is more than 1Gbps needed for that? That seems insane, but I’m old and watch stuff in full HD so what do I know.

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              16 days ago

              Low latency means low compression. Low compression means high bandwidth.
              1080p60 NDI will be 200mbps. If you are doing 2160p60, that’s 800mbps (which is about the limit I would run 1gbe at). Doesn’t leave much overhead for anything else, and a burst of other traffic might cause packet drops or packet rejection due to exceeding the TTL.

              2.5gbps would be enough.
              But I see 2.5gbps and 5gbps as “stop-gaps”. Data centers standardised on 10/40gbps for a while (before 25/100 and 100/400) - it’s still really common tbh - so the 10gbps tech is cheap.
              I don’t see the point in investing in 2.5/5gbps

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                15 days ago

                Thanks for the info, didn’t think the limit was so close.

                My box has 2.5Gbps but I’m with you on that one regardless of my real needs, I’ll wait it out til 10Gbps. If even my geek needs flare up I mean :-)

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                  15 days ago

                  Most (all?) 10gbe copper switches will negotiate 1/2.5/5 gbps.

                  Most 10g switches with sfp+ will as well, but you also have to make sure the sfp+ ethernet module will negotiate lower speeds.
                  I’ve had some annoying interactions between 1gbps and 10gbps when using different sfp+ switches and sfp+ ethernet modules. I never dug into it, I just swapped stuff around until it worked.

                  So no reason not to get a 10g switch to start building things out