What to do with a Gigabit connection

Well after over 3 years of badgering my freeholder we finally got Hyperoptic live a few days ago. Lockes Wharf is the latest Hypersite!

Question for you Hypersonic users - What can I do with this speed!?

I dont know where I could stream 4K tv or something data hungry!

My speed isnt too bad - I suspect my hardware will be slowing the speed down!

Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Testing from Cogent Communications...
Hosted by Vodafone UK (London) [0.96 km]: 5.395 ms
Testing download speed........................................
Download: 754.65 Mbits/s
Testing upload speed..................................................
Upload: 201.59 Mbits/s

I upgraded my Ubuntu to the latest distribution in under 6 seconds (410MB download)

I could buy a HD download of something I guess?

Anyway very impressed so far, but hard not to be as my speed was under 4 Meg before on ADSL!

Edited by deleted (Thu 24-Jul-14 10:53:37)

YouTube has a good load of 4K content that will look better than HD

Also time to look at cloud storage as you can now upload probably as fast as you can copy onto a USB stick.

A speed test via http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html or http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/ispa (no need for flash/java on the second one) with postcode will help put the flats onto our map as faster than your average fibre.

thanks - my fastest I7 Win laptop is wifi only

Is there a thinkbroadband linux command line test?? as my fast server with GB NIC is Ubuntu and headless!

Edited by deleted (Thu 24-Jul-14 12:31:58)

Convert a bed room to a server room and start up the next google...

You could set up a VPN server and offer VPN access to people so they can watch iPlayer when not in the UK ... probably not legit.

Host a load of legal torrents like linux distros etc.

Set up a hotspot and give free Wi-Fi to your neighbours that are too tight to pay for Hyperoptic ... probably a breach ot their T's & C's.

No but test files you can wget at http://www.thinkbroadband.com/download.html

In reply to a post by JonathanCassar:

What can I do with this speed!?

You could fill up a Sky 2TB box in super quick time and then spend the next two two months, watching TV 24/7, before you needed to watch anything else again.......

Edited by deleted (Thu 24-Jul-14 16:40:23)

In reply to a post by JonathanCassar:

thanks - my fastest I7 Win laptop is wifi only

Is there a thinkbroadband linux command line test?? as my fast server with GB NIC is Ubuntu and headless!

If it has USB3 you could try a USB3 Gigabit Network adapter.

Edited by dragon2611 (Fri 25-Jul-14 14:55:02)

Ordered thanks for that!

In reply to a post by JonathanCassar:

Ordered thanks for that!

No Problem, as to if you'll get a full Gigabit off a USB adapter I'm not sure but I've seen the USB3 ones get over 600Mbit/s

Edited by dragon2611 (Fri 25-Jul-14 15:40:13)

What a funny old world we live in, where the limitation on speed is firmly within the household... I'd have laughed at you if you told me that this would happen back when ADSL was being rolled out: I had a 100mbit LAN then and a 512Kb/sec Pipex ADSL connection!

Indeed, and the various different variants of 802.11N doesn't help matters at all.

After all depending on the Number of Streams a device supports dictates it's maximum speed. Also it doesn't help when router manufactures quote 300Mbit/s.etc

I remember 512KBps cable being considered fast (Then they bumped it upto 600Kbps just to get one over on BT) these days I'd probably find such a connection painful to use.