10 Gbps internet

Do any internet providers in Taiwan offer 10 Gbps internet? It’s available in North America even for standard home plans now. Rogers, Comcast etc. all offer that.

I tried Taipei Fiber, TW Mobile, but the fastest they have is 1 Gbps download and at most 600 Mbps upload.

ask @Satellite_TV or @Marco they r the specialists with telcos!

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CHT has 2Gbps down / 1Gbps up

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Most websites won’t even have support for it anyways.

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I’d like to max out my wifi 6 router and take advantage of the low electricity rates

:thinking:

400-600Mbps is becoming more commonly available in major metropolitan areas for residential service in North America, but there’s only one ISP claiming to provide 10Gbps residential that I know of, and their actual throughput peaks around 800Mbps with more typical rates being 200-300Mbps.

Perhaps there was a mis-translation and that should have read 100Mbps, (which is widely available in most of NA now, esp w/Starlink available for the more rural areas)…?

Perhaps he’s starting a hosting company at home? :man_shrugging: :joy:

Comcast has 10 Gbps symmetrical (10 Gbps down / 10 Gbps up) here: https://www.fiercetelecom.com/broadband/comcast-debuts-symmetrical-10-gig-fiber-broadband-tier

Rogers 10 Gbps: Dedicated Fibre Internet – Rogers Business

There’s lots of business ideas I have. One is to become a youtuber. They have to upload unencoded videos that are like 500 GB and having 10 Gbps upload speed helps alot

Which is not available yet, and is being compared to their fiber “Pro” service, which is for commercial customers, not residential.

I mean, yeah, you can get 10Gbps (or 100Gbps, or even Tbps) literally anywhere right now if you want to spend enough money on it! :joy:

Honestly, unless you have a very large family and TVs in every room with everyone having their own private movie night it’s hard to justify even much more than 30-50Mbps service for residential use. :man_shrugging:

Be your own provider and join TPIX? https://www.tpix.net.tw/mem_list.html

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It’s really not enough

I do software development as well and I download GBs of data every day. For example doing an update to an IDE like IntelliJ is several GBs, downloading libraries in gradle is several hundred MBs and that happens several times a day. I want it to download in 5 seconds instead of 5 minutes.

Also I want to run my own crypto nodes and start staking some coins. If that goes well maybe I can stake coins for others like jerry’s pool in Taiwan.

If I become a YouTuber and need to upload 500GB of unencoded video to YouTube to process, I can’t be waiting around forever, I’d like it to finish in a minute.

As @Marco mentioned above, you’ll never get that due to host throttling unless you can find an uncapped source somewhere or some alternative option like a Torrent, (better verify all your checksums going that route though, lol!)

As for Youtube, the bottleneck is still on the other end.

And crypto needs CPU processing cycles, not bandwidth.

Sorry to say, but I get the feeling you’re looking for a solution that won’t actually fix any of your problems…

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It’s CPU/GPU for farming, but you need bandwidth to run nodes. For example a single ETH node recommends 25Mbps down/up

I think this is a case of if you build it, then the solutions/ideas will come. If I don’t have the technology, I wouldn’t think of creative ways to use it.

Maybe I can run private VPNs for private customers. That’ll require lots of bandwidth.

Sounds like your best bet is to get some datacenter rackspace (or a large hosting budget) and deploy a server farm, then you can experiment to your heart’s content. :smirk:

It’s not budget friendly enough and I don’t want to risk cloud providers banning crypto activities

I want to run a bunch of cheap Mac mini m1 servers at home because they draw 39 watts maximum each and are very power friendly for how much compute power they have. Taiwan has some of the lowest electricity rates worldwide. So then it’s a simple case of offering something that provides more income than the electricity cost, which there are lots of ideas for.

I don’t know of any crypto-currency in current existence that would give you a return on that investment.

I’m going to stop responding to this thread as it seems to be evolving into increasingly esoteric and unlikely scenarios, all of which are off-topic to the original question. :roll_eyes:

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Crypto is just one idea but it’s definitely profitable

If you have over 64 ethereum you can run your own ETH node and it gives around 4% staking returns. The power consumption is very low when using Mac mini m1, we’re talking about at most $1 a month. 64 ETH currently is worth about 100k USD so your profit is around 4K USD a year in staking returns by running a simple node.

Since the node has to constantly synchronize with the network, it uses a lot of bandwidth and disk storage but very low compute power and hence low electricity usage. Mac mini m1 would run at idle power most of the time which is only 7 W.

I have lots of non crypto ideas as well

If you deposit 100k USD at non-preferential rates for 1 year, you’ll have 3.85k USD in profit. So only 150 USD less - and you don’t need to buy or operate any equipment and you also don’t need to pay for the internet connection. And we’re not even talking about volatility…

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I wouldn’t trust Comcast if they provided 56k up or down.