QoS in Ipfire, greek much?

[sec-con]

@rjschilt

Generally here Downunder we get close to advertised speeds (most of the time). I remember well modem dialup days (1200bps). I now have fiber into the home / office. Living the dream!

I am in Sweden and as many EU countries we have legislation regulating that the ISP providers have a legal responsibility to deliver what is stipulated in the contract. If not, it is a punishable offense and a breach of law. Which is a source for discussion considering my previous post. Some people actually believe that with a GBit Fiber everything should arrive to the computer at that speed.

Which is of course a huge misinterpretation of how the Internet works.

[bloater99 (Tim Zakharov)]

@sec-con

It is a bit off topic but some time ago I had this discussion in a tech forum that for most of the time it really doesn’t matter what speed you are subscribed to with your ISP, you will only ever get as much MBit/s as the server you are connected to can provide.
Say you are downloading movies or linux distros or whatever, for each of those downloads you will never get higher download speeds than the offering server is able to provide, considering it’s bandwidth, the bandwidth available on the connection links (ISP-Backbone-ISP) and circumstances in general.
Essentially even if you have multigigabit conn or “only” double digit MBit conn, the reached download speed depends on so many more factors than just what speed your ISP claims to be able to provide.
Summing up: While having a high-speed internet plan is beneficial, the actual download speed you experience depends on various factors beyond just the speed your ISP provides. Server limitations, network congestion, peering agreements, local network setup, and ISP policies are all affected by this. Thus, even with a gigabit connection, you might not always experience gigabit speeds for every download.
Ultimately, and looking at your own hardware, another bottleneck resides in the I/O speeds of your storage media. Being able to download at 5GBit is moot, if you can only write 100MB/s to your HDD. You need high speed NVME SSD drives for that.

Gotcha. I am aware of this concept, I just didn’t realize that’s what you meant.