Took me 2 months after getting my 10Gbe internet before I was able to get these speeds. Took so much work.. This will be easy in the future, but it's still the early days of 10Gbps internet and most things aren't set up for it (OS, motherboard, network protocols, hosting services, home routers, command line utilities, etc). Only Steam and large file transfers from super-fast services even come close to maxing it out.
Are you sure that was a actual representative because I had years ago this so called rep trying to sell me internet but he was just trying to see what people had so he and his trainees can come back and rob people. This is what a neighbor told me and scolding me for being so informative about what services I’m using I was given them valuable information and I was so willing to argue that I had something better than their offer. This video totally reminded me of my experience. Especially in San Jose ca. A lot of scammers here
Social engineering is real, you're right. It's good to assume your information could be used against you later. I definitely wasn't thinking about this at the time. In hindsight, I don't think I told him anything that would give him an edge in robbing me. Just like I built a custom 10Gbe setup, I also built a custom security system and have caught people :) Nothing at all is foolproof though, so your advice is still super valid!
My connection is a mere 150 Mbps and if it's divided by 8 bytes, downloading 90 Gigs of the file will take about 2 hours and 40 minutes (sigh) with the same price (even more sigh)
Yes, I used a cheaper PCI-e (i.e. $100) 10Gbe adapter but it had issues at full speed for longer than 20s, so I swapped for an Intel adapter for servers and got it working in Linux (easy) and Windows 11 (harder).
I have 1.5gb download with fiberop and i only get 500mbs when downloading gta 5 or any other games do i think steam has a cap on how fast you can download. I have a gen 4 m.2 so it isnt my drive
What I've determined is that there is no "one speed" for Steam. The speeds between games are huge, which makes me think that the publisher of the game either pays for hosting themselves, pays for faster speeds, or the Steam caching of common files at faster nodes is the cause. Still, my machine was DEFINITELY the limiting factor for a while, and I kept having to upgrade stuff until I got these speeds. If you're using Windows, you can use the graph view in the task manager to see which resource is maxed out while do a Steam download. For me it was first CPU (ended up being RAM speed), then SSD, then network router (which is why I built my own).
can you do me a favor and check what ping you get when playing on overseas game servers ? like if you connected to eu or dubai servers what ping youll get
It scales pretty evenly as distance increases from my location in California. Local city: 3ms 6 hrs away: 15ms across country (NYC): 60ms Tokyo: 110ms London UK: 130ms Moscow: 180ms Dubai: 250ms Johannesburg (farthest from me): 280ms
Thanks actually a really good question. I don't use anything but BATTLENET and Steam though, so I'd have to sign up and buy stuff on the others to see. I will say that from my previous testing, the 2 biggest limiting factors to speed (now that my machine isn't one) is how busy the internet is in general (i.e. peak times of day) and the speed of the specific hosting repository. For example, it's really clear that Steam isn't all the same speed. I picked this game to show off the speed as it's the fastest publisher on Steam - if you download other games on Steam, the speeds change dramatically.
That's a good idea, but I did monitor my NVMe busy times and tested max write speed (>2GB/s) to make sure I wasn't limited by my SSD. 650MB/s was as fast as I could get from Steam, which I think is the limit of my Sonic internet as my speedtest.net speed test results (which don't have any disk writes) are about the same speed. So, my link can't actually hit 10Gbps capacity to my house, but I can't complain. :)
Yeah, and the CPU usage seems to be about half decompressing the game data as it's downloaded and the other half is just what it takes to handle that amount of incoming data through the OS.
What I found through a lot of testing, is you need at least this to get 4-5Gbps from my Steam test: - 4 cores - Dual Channel (important) RAM at >= 3000Mhz - a fast internet router (built my own so I could do filtering and ad blocking at full speed) - disk with at least 2X the speed you download at (it's doing reads and write at the same time, not just writing) - good CAT6 cables (or fiber) There was a ton of other little tweaks in the OS and in Steam, but I don't remember them all..
10Gbps is SUPER rare in the USA and is very expensive when available. Sonic Internet is just a crazy cool company you should read up on. I just happen to be lucky enough to live where they're based in California. Sadly, they have an uphill battle as the other ISPs, like AT&T are trying to kill them off so they stop spoiling their ability to charge a lot of money for fast speeds. Watch my other video where I catch an AT&T guy going door to door trying to convert people back to slower speeds and higher prices using fear and misinformation..
Man, I agree with you. So, instead of having to mess in a CLI, I just updated the script to automate the transfer of any finished torrent to my machine. This CLI shows its progress, but its just meant to be a background sync tool you never see now.
It's disgusting what it took to get this working, honestly. I couldn't even buy an adequate, ad-blocking home router to handle 10Gbps, so I had to build a mini Ryzen box with 10G ethernet cards to run OpenWRT on. It was a fun project though... BTW, the high RAM usage is from VMs. I will say, though, that my RAM speed was actually my limiting point on my downloads, if you can believe that. Once I went to dual dim and faster clock speeds, that's how I got to this level. That's just insane to me..
@@davidthomson7706Can you ideally get 10 gig down for seedbox to pc download as "They" advertise unmetered 20gbps? And what would be the hardware required?
Believe it or not, I'm actually worried about mentioning it will cause it to get more popular and congest it up, especially since it's only £10 /month for 1TB of storage with unmetered 20Gbps speeds...
ChatGPT! :) Seriously though, I did ask ChatGPT to explain what makes long distance transfers slow and then chatted with it (or is it "her"?!) about how to transfer faster using basic linux commands and utils. I worked on it a bit before getting it just right. Oh, and I'm using WSL to run linux commands on Windows, if that part was confusing.
And yes, you can max out a 100Mbps connection! Don't need a special setup for that. Note that this demonstrates the speed of transferring a "finished" torrent, not the initial peer-to-peer download of the file. That part is largely bottlenecked by the number of torrent peers sharing the file. If this isn't something you're very familiar with, look up how seed boxes work and it'll help explain things.
