• cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    Google Fiber is offering 8 gig in some areas? Like… for what?

    I could saturate it in 24 hours LMAO

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      3 days ago

      What do you mean?

      Couldn’t you saturate it instantly? It’s saturated exactly while you’re using that speed and when you stop, it’s not saturated anymore

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        3 days ago

        On paper, yes

        But in the real world there’s very little out there that is capable and/or will allow you to download/upload something at a full 8Gbps

        So, to actually saturate that pipe in a real world scenario id undoubtedly need to get multiple streams of something going, probably torrents or Usenet, and that’ll take me some time lol

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          3 days ago

          Oh I’d just throw in a bunch of big freeleech torrents and it’d take me 3 minutes to achieve saturation. The upkeep might be difficult though