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Comment by scarface_74 | Hacker News Reader

I had symmetrical gigabit fiber up and down via AT&T. Besides speed tests, the only times in the real world I ever remember getting close to those speeds were multithreaded BackBlaze backups, torrents, and connections to AWS for copying files back and forth to S3.

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Some people work from home and do things like push Docker images or ML models up, especially over VPNs. Some other users create video content or work in creative spaces that deal with larger files. Comcast’s 45mbps aka 5.625MB/s limit on their highest tier 1200mbps residential service is absolutely a friction point for many of us today.

You’re going to fine your VPN is still going to be a limiting factor unless your company has really good bandwidth to support it.

Even with symmetrical 1Gbos and pushing to AWS, the VPN was slowing me down.

Luckily, we started implementing zero trust and not needing a VPN. But I would still just launch a Cloud9 instance and do everything on it for much faster speeds

And it did help that I worked for the only company that never has to worry about or pay AWS a huge AWS bill no matter how much we used it…

Both steam and the PS5 store can max out my gigabit connection.

But imagine a world where everyone had 2Gbps Internet but your site could only push 0.2Gbps per user.

Then soon your site will be the slowest one around and you’d want to catch up.

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