That reminds me of something similar my ISP said. “Don’t be afraid of the bandwidth”, if you give your customers more bandwidth they aren’t actually going to fill it, they’ll still run roughly the same downloads just more quickly.
And here when they gave the same talk at SwiNOG they also mentioned how their network ring in Wintherthur is still pretty much equally loaded after 10G and 25G home connections became available: https://youtu.be/wXmJCzMeIBo?t=1195
I remember when we got a new deal with the ISP for my condo building (negotiate one deal for x amount of condos) and I could choose to have no TV channels but get gigabit for the same price.
It took about 2 weeks from when I got the gigabit before they called me asking for when a bit of downtime would be OK, as they needed to move me to a different switch at the node because I was consuming more bandwidth than the remaining 23 people connected combined, and it was messing with their QoS as they hadn’t planned for someone actually using their gigabit line lol
Great ISP though, sad they shut down their Usenet servers a couple years ago…
That reminds me of something similar my ISP said. “Don’t be afraid of the bandwidth”, if you give your customers more bandwidth they aren’t actually going to fill it, they’ll still run roughly the same downloads just more quickly.
Here it’s at 12:10 in this video archive of their talk at RIPE: https://ripe84.ripe.net/archives/video/797/
And here when they gave the same talk at SwiNOG they also mentioned how their network ring in Wintherthur is still pretty much equally loaded after 10G and 25G home connections became available: https://youtu.be/wXmJCzMeIBo?t=1195
I remember when we got a new deal with the ISP for my condo building (negotiate one deal for x amount of condos) and I could choose to have no TV channels but get gigabit for the same price.
It took about 2 weeks from when I got the gigabit before they called me asking for when a bit of downtime would be OK, as they needed to move me to a different switch at the node because I was consuming more bandwidth than the remaining 23 people connected combined, and it was messing with their QoS as they hadn’t planned for someone actually using their gigabit line lol
Great ISP though, sad they shut down their Usenet servers a couple years ago…
I miss the days of ISPs providing Usenet access.
aw yis, init7. 💪
Well, at least up until games and videos and such get bigger. Streaming was a big change too.