My Internet is Too Fast

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
2:17 What's in YOUR device?
4:20 What are you doing?
6:20 It takes two to tango
9:05 BUT LINUS...
10:13 Got 'im!
12:38 Outro

[Eli-zbyj]

Linus: Your internet is too fast
Me: Watch the video in 360p

[IvanBachynsky]

I live in Ukraine and have a 1 gig optic internet in my condo that costs me around $8 monthly. No restrictions on connection speed, symmetrical channel, and great latency. One of the most significant upsides of going optic is that last winter, we had massive blackouts due to russian war, and the ONU terminal and my routers could be powered with a simple power bank so that I would have wifi even if the lights were out.

[murirokcs]

Network engineer here 👏
Well done on simplifying yet staying super accurate with the topic. Makes me proud to be an LTT fanboy haha. Good job guys & gals!

[Finkelfunk]

Our Professor for networking told a funny story in his lecture where he called his ISP to get some more IPs to use for his servers, and they tried selling him a bundle, to quote the customer rep:
"This bundle includes a few addresses for different standards, IPv4, IPv5, IPv6, all in there"
Needless to say he tried to hold back his laughter as much as he could.

[johannesjandke]

I work for a large European ISP.
Our "Gigabit" tariff (1.000Mbs UP/200Mbs DOWN) costs about 80€ in Germany whereas the same contract in Slovakia costs only 30€ and has 100 Mbs more upload speed.
The reason for this is that Slovakia has had a well-developed fiber optic network for many years, while in more western parts of Europe (e.g. Germany) the old DSL (copper) network was maintained for years, which now has to be painstakingly and cost-intensively converted to fiber optics. The ISPs of course pass this price on to their customers.
In my opinion, it is cheeky that symmetrical tariffs are only available for business customers, even though the connection is technically no different from a "normal" household connection. The limitation here is purely digital, simply because ISPs can afford it as they have the upper hand.

[valermo]

"Your Internet is Too Fast"
Me, living on German Countryside
"No, I don't think it is :)"

[AurrenTV]

The biggest tip is to threaten your ISP with leaving.
You can often pretty easily get down to <50% what you are currently paying and sometimes it can all just be done in a help chat box (was for mine). If you don't do it you're probably being ripped off.

[carneousevil]

"Your Internet is Too Fast"

*laughs in Australian*

[pyroslev]

This was a very spot on and apt video. My parents are in a VERY rural area and the entire region just got fiber internet. They were shocked when I told them to do the 200 Mbps plan. They're not gaming and barely stream more than one thing at a time. They're still overpaying but I wanted them to have the headroom for the future and for when I visit with the kids. Four months in, they're more than happy with what they're paying for. (Plus, it let me install a wifi beam system to beam wifi out to my cabin a mile across the fields to my cabin on the neighboring land without them noticing.)

[ThePlayerOfGames]

ISPs operate a cartel in my town. Every ISP offers ADSL 8mb to every household. But each ISP serves certain post codes with no overlap fast cable or fibre. They specifically make it so you can technically shop around but you can't specifically shop for fast internet, you only have one choice dependant upon where you live.

[redthorne]

"Try the <implied many choices> various ISPs" is such a foreign concept in much, if not most, of the US. Our choices are usually between 1 cable, 1 DSL, or 1 Satellite provider. Often, only two of those three. Although 5G internet services are becoming more popular in the larger metro areas.

[anvecom]

To me, the biggest benefit of fiber internet isn't how fast its maximum download speeds are, but that your upload speed tends to be just as fast as download speeds, and how insanely conistent and low-latency it is. Most content on the internet doesn't require enormous amounts of bandwidth to view (seems that 4K streaming caps out below 40 Mbps in some cases), but if there's something wonky interfering with your device's ability to send requests to websites or services (like having really high ping and/or low upload speeds, which does appear with cable-based internet, or for people in rural areas with DSL), stuff feels *sloow*. I don't view that it's all about raw speed, rather that eliminating bottlenecks or other problems that lead to inconsistency holds the most importance.

[coolbrotherf]

I worked at ATT as a technician and I would often suggest to customers to get the half a gig or even a quarter of a gig plans if they only intended to use the WIFI just general Internet use. Even half a gig is more than enough for most families.

[ffwast]

I'm that guy getting by with the .25mbps connection most of the time. "too fast" is not a "problem" I have ever had in my life.

[teenylp]

Here in Switzerland the ISP which provides an 10Gbps Uplink is way cheaper than the ISP which provodes an 500mbps Uplink. The 10Gbps are 50$ cheaper a month. Thats just insane.

[medicalwei]

9:07 As a person who literally work on Linux ISOs, having a big (and stable !) bandwidth really helps

[BeanieWeenieNumba]

As an isp technician this video is great. Sales teams are constantly convincing ppl to pay for a more expensive service you don't Ned especially the elderly who dont comprehend this
Great video must watch
Gonna start showing this to my customers

[StillConfusing]

ended up spending less money going from 35mbps to 900mbps, which is so funny

[jericho]

LTT is on a role with these "times are hard" tech tips.

[Efreeti]

5:22 I caught that dubbed-in number. Good on you for not leaving errors in the recording and settling for a text correction on-screen.