Comment by jmalicki

6 hours ago

While Switzerland has higher median HHI than the US as a whole, the Bay Area in California does have comparable median household income.

In the Bay Area, Sonic does offer 10Gbps fiber internet in some places on new buildouts.

I struggled to find a use case for it, except as a WAN between a homelab and a remote datacenter where I could do crazy things like run an NFS server over the internet or stream training data to a GPU, etc.

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kalleboo  3 hours ago

> crazy things like run an NFS server over the internet

Is that so crazy? If 10G was the default, you could just plop a cheap NAS at home and nobody would need to pay monthly subscriptions for cloud services.

  • jmalicki  2 hours ago

    For cloud services, I only need to match the bandwidth my cellphone has for my home NAS, so 1Gbps would be fine.

    10Gbps is like.... my /home on my desktop could be served via NFS from somewhere else and it would probably be barely noticeable. That's just another level of crazy.