conspiracy: internet connections could be way faster than they are but they choose not to improve transfer speeds because if they did it would be trivial to toss movies back and fourth to eachother
I live in a city where I pay $70/month for 1Gb fiber (and I could get 10G for $300/month). Back in Chicago, you could get a similar deal with AT&T fiber if you lived in the right place.
At least in town I can get 1Gbs. I once went to a buddy's movie night and forgot the USB stick with the movie (a rare, old indie movie made in our city that's difficult to find anymore). I borrowed his laptop, SSHed back home and copied it across in a couple of seconds.
I get way slower speeds from Hetzner (there is an ocean in the way) and Vultr (Chicago data centre), but those services state their bandwidth caps too and they're under 1Gbs, plus you're often sharing the pipe with everyone else in the data center.
I've heard you can get 1Gb in most of western Europe and you usually can get well over half of that peer-to-peer with different ISPs. I don't think anything is really preventing person-to-person movie piracy, except that there are so many paid options, people don't like to steal, and people no longer trust all the old P2P gnutella/napster like program after all the 1990s lawsuits (which couldn't happen today in the US without at least warning thanks to the DMCA).
..but the biggest thing is probably just paid streaming services and morals ... of which the later I have none. 🏴☠️ 🦜
@djsumdog where I live, upload is incredibly constrained. You can get gigabit download but you're limited to 20 Mbps upload. It's like that in most places in the US.
@RustyCrab@djsumdog i wonder if that's not to stop residential zombie farms, like legally they can't just tell all the idiots they are part of the botnet, so they restrict everyone to save themselves the hassle
Cable modem? .. Cable modem limits come from a lot of the old infrastructure. I've never been in a city where fiber was under 50Gb up .. but fiber availability isn't common
@Pawlicker@djsumdog oh nextcloud upload just sucks. Try it on lan and you'll get the same thing. I have a gigabit wired connection to a server setting next to me and it can't go faster than 20 MB/s
@Pawlicker@djsumdog I am content with it because I don't usually deal with big files on nextcloud.
I use this to manage all my big data. The interface is for nerds but it's been serving me very well for over a year now. https://git-annex.branchable.com/
@thegreatape can back me up that I'm not foaming mouth crazy
@djsumdog@Pawlicker@RustyCrab@thegreatape git-annex is okay. i used it for a little while. annoying thing with annex is that you get a whole folder of broken links, since it shows the whole library even if files are not present.
if you want to see only what is there, its a penance.
@icedquinn@Pawlicker@djsumdog@thegreatape I don't mind the links since that's by design. It probably depends on how your file manager chooses to display it though. On gnome for me it's just a bunch of blank pages which is fine.
whereis is awesome though. It does a really great job of keeping track of the true locations of stuff.
@RustyCrab@Pawlicker@djsumdog@thegreatape yeah i used it for a while. would store entire series of shows and use the copy/move/drop stuff to migrate it to storage in case someone else wanted to see it.
@djsumdog@Pawlicker@thegreatape I don't know how well syncthing scales. I skimmed it and it didn't seem like quite what I needed. The advantage of annex is that you can choose what gets backed up where but everything has a full index of files on all your clones. INSANELY useful to no longer have to wonder what is where on what disk anymore. Especially because I have nearly 30 tb of data and it's all accounted for in a way that I know won't be corrupted.
As for upload speed it's just over ssh, so it's as fast as the two computers can handle. On lan I get near gigabit transfer. The slowest part is the integrity checks.
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