• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    you’re streaming over a Gb worth of video? even a full 4k blu ray rip is less than 1/10 of that.

    • Mike Wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com
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      15 hours ago

      Well, no I’m not. You’re right. I miscalculated how much data was needed for video streaming. Even multiple simultaneous hi-res streams should stream fine with 1GbE.

      But as an abstracted idea, you might want high throughput within your LAN for some reaosn, even if an ISP doesn’t offer 10Gbps to your house.

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        File transfers between devices is one reason. With NVME R/W speeds you can easily saturate 1Gb networking equipment. I think 10Gb is more than most people need most of the time but it would still be nice to have if it weren’t so expensive. I just bought a small 2.5Gb switch to connect my server and PC together since both have 2.5Gb NICs and that seems to be a happy medium.