Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Having a local caching DNS server (unbound) makes a big difference in perceived speed. Putting pihole in front of that is even bigger. At least for me.

    I don’t stream and I don’t have 2 or 3 people making video calls. So it’s fine that I’m not on 1gbps. But with a couple teenagers and adults streaming and working it adds up.