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In Reply to: RE: More computer related than audio related, but. . . posted by Chris from Lafayette on September 23, 2024 at 17:36:43
. . . especially Lman and grumpyanddopey. I got the exact ethernet converter recommended by Lman - it's connected to one of the Thunderbolt ports on my Mac Mini (the one with the M2 processor). And I DID have to get Cat 6e cable to replace my existing ethernet cable. That was all it took. Right now, I'm connected directly to the Xfinity cable modem - but it has four ethernet ports, and I still have one free even now.
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It'll take about 10 years of them bloating all of the software before that speed will be necessary. That seems to be the cycle I've experienced where that blazing fast computer/phone/device suddenly seems slow. I'm using an M1 MBA to post this message that I had originally set up for my biking apps and then swapped with my 2015 iMac as my main computer. Yesterday was my first day of indoor biking for the season after 5 months and I used the iMac for it and it was slow. It still supported the bike app in full 4k mode though at full framerate. But startup was slow, updating the app was slow. When I got that computer 9 years ago it felt blazing fast.
Congrats on getting this to work in any case! I'm sticking with 1gbps.
I completely understand - I mainly wanted to see if I could get it to work for myself. But I have noticed that an initial delay in the sound which I used to have after first logging on to a certain site is gone now - again, not that that makes much difference! ;-)
I was going to ask you what you will do with all that internet speed. You are now the king of ISP speed here on the Asylum!
I'm glad you went through this exercise for the benefit of others. I'm not sure when I'll need that kind of speed but thanks just the same.
You are now the king of ISP speed here on the Asylum!
for uploads. ;)
. . . where the uploads are faster than the downloads?
we used a local cable provider and got 95/20. Over a year ago, AT&T brought fiber to our small college town and I jumped on the opportunity. Ironically, it is less expensive ($60/mo) than the slower approach it replaced.Have no idea why one is faster than the other. Generally speaking fiber is equally bi-directional in speed. Maybe it has to do with a somewhat older Cisco RV320 VPN router I use that was provided by my former employer years ago. Upload speed is especially useful for video conferencing (Zoom, Teams, GotoMeeting, etc.) where wifey benefits from occasional use at home. Wish I had that capability long ago when I was constantly doing software demos and training!
Like the processing power of my Mac Mini (200x Cray 2), I'm good with the performance and really don't find any useful need for more. :)
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Just last week I downgraded our internet service to 500 Mbps Down / 25 Mbps Up (about half of what we had) with no perceived difference in performance for typical daily use including video conferencing. Before I retired the faster speeds were sometimes useful for uploading or downloading HUGE software image files. I no longer have a need to do that.
"Upload speed is especially useful for video conferencing (Zoom, Teams, GotoMeeting, etc.) where wifey benefits from occasional use at home."
According to Zoom : there are no scenarios that require more than 4 Mbs UPLOAD or DOWNLOAD speed but enjoy.
"The bandwidth used by Zoom will be optimized for the best experience based upon the participant's network .
"Optimized" exactly how? You have enough for immediate high quality video or you don't. For a time, I had only 5 up and online demos and remote staff meetings were sluggish or paused at times.
Doesn't matter since I retired!
Relative to most ISP offerings today video doesn't need much."Optimized" exactly how? You have enough for immediate high quality video or you don't."
If your ISP provides anything over 5 Mbs (pretty much all do!) you have enough for immediate high quality video. If you have a flakey ISP or perhaps you're on a Zoom from a mobile phone that's where this really comes into play:
"The bandwidth used by Zoom will be optimized for the best experience based on the participant's' network. It will automatically adjust for 3/4/5G, WiFi, or wired networks."
Most Zoom video conferences are at 720p. Even 1080p (HD) only requires 5 Mbps.
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doesn't change the level of performance I used to get a 5 mbits upload.End of story.
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Your comment here doesn't make much sense to me.
"doesn't change the level of performance I used to get a 5 mbits download"
A 5 megabit download would be a 0.625 Megabyte download..... which will take only 1 second to download if you have 5-Mbs service, or 0.1 sec to download if you have 50-Mbs service, or 0.01 sec to download if you have 500 Mbps service. But at this point it becomes more about latency response vs throughput speed.
Which gets me back to one of my earlier comments about there being no perceptible difference between my 500 Mbs service vs 1 Gbps.
As for streaming, if the video is streamed at 5 Mbs, a 50 or 500 Mbs service will net no improvement in the video. It will simply stream at the 5 Mbs rate.
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