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with internet service providers in dozens of countries around the world

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advertising gigabit or even faster internet service it's awfully tempting

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to yell shut up and take my money and then bathe yourself in a waterfall of

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dank mes but before you spend even more of your hard-earned dollars upgrading an

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already too expensive internet plan there's a lot you need to consider first

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of all how is that connection even getting to your PC or other devices is

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it going to be a bottleneck well for most people the answer to that question

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is by using the ISP provided router now

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if that happens to be in the same room or you're lucky enough to have Ethernet

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in your walls great any reasonably modern device except Smart TVs for some

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reason should have a gigabit Ethernet port meaning you will get the full

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benefit and even if you weren't so lucky as all that modern powerline network

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adapters and even Wi-Fi can handle gigabit or more however everything that

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I just said comes with some big big butts let's start with the most common

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connection today Wi-Fi if you happened to buy yourself a premium Wi-Fi router

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or access point in the last 20 minutes or so well congratulations 1center

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you're ready to download at gigabit speeds sort of more on that later for

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everyone else who grabbed a $15 USB Wi-Fi dongle and called it a day well

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I've got some bad news advertised Wi-Fi speeds are a pipe dream specifically

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this kind of pipe dream I mean sure with enough spatial streams your pre-plague

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Wi-Fi 5 setup could hit gigabit in the real world but between your walls cats

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and just plain old distance you'd be lucky to get half of that leaving the

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rest of your tasty megabits untouched

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now the justification for these advertised speeds is that with multiple

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concurrent users all downloading at the same time the total might add up to

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something approaching that number but that also assumes that you have a bunch

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of people who are downloading at the same time and that your router and your

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devices have implemented optional parts of the Wi-Fi spec that spoiler alert

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they often didn't Oh and before I spoil that too our sponsor is Ridge they're

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applies equally to power line and mocha if you're on anything but the latest

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version of the tech under optimal conditions it is unlikely that you need

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a gigabit pipe to keep them fed but let's say for the sake of argument

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you have overcome those problems let's meet potential bottleneck number two

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your computer whether your computer looks like this or this or this or this

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the data that reaches your network adapter still needs to be processed and

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sometimes stored now as long as you have a solid state drive the storage part is

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probably fine gigabit or 1,000 megabit

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is just 125 megabytes per second it's

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not that much in the grand scheme of things so then why is the processing an

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issue well you you see data hosts and internet service providers greatly

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prefer that the files you download are compressed this helps them save on

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storage space and helps them save on bandwidth costs as your juicy memes

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movies and games come flying over the wire the downside of all of this is that

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someone needs to uncompress them that's

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you which is why downloading games from Steam has turned into kind of an

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informal Benchmark around here because it turns out to max out a gigabit line

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in Steam you need a pretty modern CPU to max out 2 and 1/2 gig you pretty much

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need a top-of-the-line gaming chip and to even approach the limits of the 10

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gig connection that we have to our on-site steam cache we need a

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$10,000 996 core Threadripper Pro now

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as you can imagine most people's PCS and especially game consoles aren't equipped

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with any of that stuff I mean even the PS5 and Xbox series X struggle to reach

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full gigabit speeds for game downloads and as for the Nintendo switch well it's

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in a class of its own the uh less advanced class struggling to reach real

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world speeds of even just 100 megabit which was the standard on PCS so I don't

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know 25 years ago now there are valid

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use cases for fat download speeds and we will talk about those but first let's

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change gears to what most people are actually doing with their internet

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connection most of the time and it isn't playing that game it's playing other

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games now obviously every game's a little different but but we spent 10

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minutes in rocket league and Halo infinite moving about 6 megab and 15

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megabytes of data respectively that doesn't mean you're going to be able to

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get by with a25 megabit connection your voice chat uh might not be too happy

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about that but what it does mean is that a 200 to 300 megabit connection is lots

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for even a Full House of active Gamers especially now that steam allows local

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transfers of game files however that doesn't mean that just any connection

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will do because any gamer will tell you once you've got enough bandwidth latency

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is the real difference between pone or be pwned and it can be worthwhile to

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test drive any available local isps to see who Nets you the lowest ping times

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to your favorite game servers the same actually goes for streaming games from a

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service like GeForce now or Xbox Cloud depending on the resolution and frame

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rate that you target they call for anywhere from 10 to 45 megabit now game

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streaming is a unique past because even a tiny disruption can spell disaster so

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while I wouldn't say you need gigabit I would probably double or even triple the

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onp paper requirements just to ensure that my little sister's book report

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doesn't get my squad wiped out but the same is not true of Netflix and other

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video streaming services which is actually kind of funny when you consider

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how much 4K video streaming gets talked about in ISP marketing materials we're

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talking Max 50 megabit per stream and it

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pre-buff in chunks for smoother playback kind of like your old old disman with

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anti-ip so yeah the faster your connection the quicker you'll be able to

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scrub within your content since those chunks will come down so fast but even

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then there's a point of diminishing returns and past a few hundred megabit

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Netflix's own servers are unlikely to send you the data any faster which

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brings us to the third big bottleneck for data to transfer from one place to

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another well it's going to have to be received by you but also sent by someone

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else at the same speed and how many businesses do you know that like

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spending extra money on an Overkill connection that most people won't

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benefit from that's right guys the vast majority of the services that you use

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are going to be throttled on their side rather than on yours well okay liners

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put on a turbo tabbing browsing social media consumption machine I'm going to

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use all the sites at once neat do you want the bad news first uh here let's

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load up say LT store.com ooh cable

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anyway I was going somewhere with this that sort of traffic page loads small

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pictures videos is made up of a whole bunch of smallish requests and resource

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files that are so small that they typically finish downloading before they

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even get up to gigabit speed you can use the network tab of your browser's Dev

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tools to reveal what exactly is going on behind the scenes when you visit a web

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page just click through to review your timing details and you can see exactly

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what's taking up time and potentially slowing down your experience it turns

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out a lot of the time it's actually not the data transfer speed at all your

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isp's default DNS needs to give you the IP address of a server before you can

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connect and in many cases this takes dozens of milliseconds meaning that most

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of the time you spend waiting that hyperfast connection was sitting idle

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anyway compounding the problem you also need to wait for the remote server to

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process your request and begin the transfer more idling the good news is

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that switching to a public DNS provider like Cloud flare Open DNS or Google can

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improve this performance in fact we did a whole video about it and Gibson

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research offers a DNS Benchmark tool that can help determine the best option

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for your location we're going to have that link down below the bad news is

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that everything I just said is free and a fancier connection does nothing to

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improve it wait bad news that's not bad news that's good news I like free stuff

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oh wait here's the bad news what is this analytics and

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advertising okay if a website is doing everything right those resources should

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load after the content you actually care about so they shouldn't impact your

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experience too much if they're doing it right in the real world though ads and

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analytics can significantly impact your browsing speed services like

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browser-based ad blocking or a pie hoold DNS resolver on your local network we

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actually made a whole video about that as well we'll have that link down below can eliminate at least some of those

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load times but as someone who relies on web advertising for my livelihood and to

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pay my staff how you guys doing good

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last paycheck clear yep good stuff I would only ask that you consider the

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impact if you go that route now let's talk about your butts but Linus I like

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to download and share Linux isos well

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first of all your community spirit and commitment to open source is admirable

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comrade but you should really be looking into a seed box for as little as a

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dollar a month you can get dedicated space and bandwidth on a server in a

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data center that has multiple high-speed internet connections all away from the

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prying eyes of your internet service provider many of them even accept crypto

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as payment because hey you know how much they hate when people share Linux isos

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but lonus I want to run a web server at home okay again why virtual private

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servers start even cheaper than seedboxes and have the same benefits

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along with static IPS easy backup options and room to grow and scale if

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you need more capacity in the future you also won't be risking your residential

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connection being terminated because you're technically violating your isp's

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terms of service you could even collocate if you want dedicated Hardware

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with a Raspberry Pi costing under 10 bucks a month which is probably less

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than that internet upgrade that you've been eyeing but lus I'm a content

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creator and I need that sweet sweet upload speed all right you've got me on

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that one a proper fiber to the home ISP

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offers symmetric speeds that is to say that the upload speed is the same as the

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download speed and I'll be the first to admit that when you're uploading

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multiple 4K videos every week that higher upload speed and not having to

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sit around and wait it's pretty amazing but watch out not all fiber services are

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equal and many isps Market their services as fiber because I don't know

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there's fiber somewhere but that last mile connection from your home to the

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nearest node is actually docis 3 or 3.1 and your upload speeds tend to be much

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slower another thing to watch out for is that we've never seen YouTube inest at

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multi- gig speeds so you're probably still okay with a decent but not maxed

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out connection which is especially true for Twitch in that case you only need

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about 8 megabits per 10860 stream so

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again real-time streaming I would build in some additional buffer in that case

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even like Forex if you don't want your audience to be like Yay what happened

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bottom line if you told 20-year-old lus that he would one day be arguing against

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faster internet speeds he would have laughed in your face but things aren't

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getting any more affordable out there right now guys and if a reality check

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here can save even 1% of the people who watch this video just $10 a month that

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would work out to over a million dollar saved a year which is a pretty big win

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