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I have 10G in Tokyo and I think it’s about $60 USD per month vs $40 for 2G. It’s definitely overkill but it sure is nice to download a 60GB steam game in a minute or two.

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The problem with 10g is that most servers aren’t on 10g yet and if you’re transiting a peering connection of a smaller ASN at some point, even that is likely not 10g

Agreed, I struggle to get anywhere close to 1gbit/sec apart from Steam.

What do you use for a router? I've got 10G (price difference from 1G was even less percentage then yours) internet myself but currently just use an RB4110 as router which is the primary bottle neck. Would be nice with something reasonably priced and sized which can route 10G or close to 10G with NAT so I could utilize my uplink a bit more.

I’m still waiting for a reasonable prosumer one to come out. I’m using an intel 2 port NIC in my desktop (so only 2 devices including the desktop get 10G), and everything else is 1G.

This hardly is relevant to your internet speeds with steam downloads. It is much more CPU dependent when you are operating at such high speeds.

A modern CPU + NIC combination will be twiddling its thumbs on a bulk download at 10G. There's a whole sleuth of optimization and offload features between the NIC and the CPU, and they work particularly well with a low number of high bandwidth data streams.

The real problem starts when you're doing lots of small packets all over the place. Which is not something you'll likely run into at home, ever.

No, it's still nothing to do with that for steam. Its their compression.

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