Life at 1Gbps
Last summer we got 1Gbps internet access when fiber finally came to our curb. Symmetric 1Gbps down/up is a significant upgrade from the old 400/10Mbps cable connection for about the same cost. As a small test, I did the below download on my home linux box using wcurl. This downloads a 773 MiB ISO image file from the local Cloudlfare POP in MSP. Here the file was already cached at Cloudflare. It downloads at 85.6 MiB per second over a single HTTP/2 TCP connection, this is finished in 9 seconds: ...