Testing a 10Gbps home fibre connection

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10Gbps home fibre tested in South Africa

MyBroadband was recently provided with some astounding test results from one of the first 10 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections in South Africa.

The fastest FTTH speed generally available in South Africa is 1Gbps, allowing for file downloads at up to 120 megabytes per second (MB/s).
 
Really don't see what the point is in having such a stupid fast connection.
Most wireless devices ie. phones and TV's aren't even capable of reaching 1Gbps.
 
eepr0m said:
Really don't see what the point is in having such a stupid fast connection.
Most wireless devices ie. phones and TV's aren't even capable of reaching 1Gbps.
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Same reason why people buy Ferraris and Lambos. It's cool to have.
 
eepr0m said:
Really don't see what the point is in having such a stupid fast connection.
Most wireless devices ie. phones and TV's aren't even capable of reaching 1Gbps.
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Future proofing I guess, but I agree with you, quite happy on my 100/100, does everything we need it to and on multiple devices with no buffering or lagging, hell it was fine when we were on 50/50 if I am honest.
 
I have yet to see a residential use case for anything exceeding 2.5gbps. 10gbps might have some demand in residential application but use cases would revolve around extremely time-sensitive movement of very large amounts of data and most likely work-from-home/home-office scenarios or a wisp/body corp etc wanting to share a connection.
 
So MyBB test servers are not configured for thos speeds, hence the 'slow' speeds - but it's not clear from the below whetherOOkla are or aren't ? He only got 4.3Gbps - so is the link slow or the server also not configured?


On speedtest.co.za, he achieved a download speed of 2.641Gbps and upload speed of 2.998Gbps, with a latency of 1ms. It should be noted that the MyBroadband servers used to perform these speeds tests are not configured for such high-bandwidth connections. Most South Africans — many of whom primarily access the Internet through a mobile device — have Mbps Internet speeds that often measure in just the double digits. On Ookla’s platform, he recorded download and uploaded speeds in excess of 4.3Gbps, and the same 1ms ping.
 
eepr0m said:
Really don't see what the point is in having such a stupid fast connection.
Most wireless devices ie. phones and TV's aren't even capable of reaching 1Gbps.
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I know right.

I'm still klapping a 56 kbps connection.

No need to go faster.

I am also still on Windows 3.11. Waiting on the next best Windows 12. (Of which I won't upgrade to as I will say I am waiting for Windows 13)
 
6spdmanual said:
Nice to show off to your mates when they are around, but value is genuinely questionable for normal day to day use.
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Meh. It is also about experience and not just raw download speed.

Now this might seem completely idiotic but when I upgraded from 100Mbps to 500Mbps the idiotic short pauses in my work Outlook disappeared. Now not enough reason but the point is it is not just about large files, but the experience as well.

Anyway I bought call of duty on steam the other day and had to take a coffee break because it took more than a minute to download. So lots of headroom for improvement. I literally had to get up and make coffee before I could play. Disgusting.
 
I just upgraded the entire house to cat6 lan cables. Oh well, 100Mbps, is sufficient for my needs. I suspect 50Mbps will also work.
 
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It's becoming more and more the norm for 10Gb/s connection. USA, NZ, and UK have started rolling these speeds out for FTTH since 2018.
 
2.5gbit is probably a much more attainable speed at this point. Given that 2.5g ethernet has gotten a lot cheaper and with WiFi 6E, you can achieve speeds over 1gbit on devices with good radios, or across multiple devices.
 
Johand said:
Meh. It is also about experience and not just raw download speed.

Now this might seem completely idiotic but when I upgraded from 100Mbps to 500Mbps the idiotic short pauses in my work Outlook disappeared. Now not enough reason but the point is it is not just about large files, but the experience as well.

Anyway I bought call of duty on steam the other day and had to take a coffee break because it took more than a minute to download. So lots of headroom for improvement. I literally had to get up and make coffee before I could play. Disgusting.
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It sounds like your ISP was over contending it's 100mbit customers, which can result in higher packet loss and jitter.

With the way many ISP routers handle contention (sharing bandwidth across a group of customers), there is a benefit to being on a product that fewer people use.
 
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Quey_Quick said:
Future proofing I guess, but I agree with you, quite happy on my 100/100, does everything we need it to and on multiple devices with no buffering or lagging, hell it was fine when we were on 50/50 if I am honest.
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Game updates it'll help a lot more
 
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I remember the same conversations and comment about 1Gbps connection when it first starting getting traction, I remember when Vuma lunched the amazement of getting 5/1 then 10/5 then 20/20 etc
That wasn't too long ago, so would say maybe not worth it this year but never say never and never say bandwidth is fast enough.....Bill learnt that lesson.
 
lordnokon said:
It's becoming more and more the norm for 10Gb/s connection. USA, NZ, and UK have started rolling these speeds out for FTTH since 2018.
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NZ? They are at the arse end of the world they get 1Gb/s. Theirs and Australia internet isn't that great, they have similar issues to us, being far away from things.
 
Lupus said:
NZ? They are at the arse end of the world they get 1Gb/s. Theirs and Australia internet isn't that great, they have similar issues to us, being far away from things.
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Yip, a mate of mine in IT in NZ, has had yes since 2018, and most installations they handle these days are 10Gb/s installs.

As for Australia, I know they are like us.
 
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