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<DocScrutinizer05> not to support my employer, just my honest notion: PIA works great and is easy to set up.
<DocScrutinizer05> 120up,13down
<DocScrutinizer05> for "Germany"
<DocScrutinizer05> "easy to set up" - after you found the right website explaining how to import the VPN into KDE NetworkManager, for me
<DocScrutinizer05> import, add user:pw, click AES-128(?) and "OK" - done
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<whitequark> DocScrutinizer05: you work at PIA?
<whitequark> also, 120 up 13 down is some really weird numbers
<whitequark> sure you didn't put a zero where it shouldn't be or the opposite?
<wpwrak> maybe he looks at it from the VPN's point of view ;-)
<DocScrutinizer05> sorry, swap down <-> up
<whitequark> ah that's better
<whitequark> how's latency?
<DocScrutinizer05> though a friend had a DSL where he actually could do that, literally. Swap down/up BW
<DocScrutinizer05> 38ms
<DocScrutinizer05> and I guess that is the bottleneck
<whitequark> that DSL sounds perfect for torrents, heh
<whitequark> it's easy to see how this would work at modem level but I've never heard of ISPs actually offering the option
<DocScrutinizer05> yeah, very unusual
<DocScrutinizer05> he also could only switch once a day
<whitequark> in hong kong there's now fiber to the home everywhere, even in rural areas (did you know hong kong is mostly mountains and villages by area, not those high-rises everyone thinks of?)
<whitequark> the absolute worst cheapest plan that i've got is 300mbps symmetric
<whitequark> they offer up to 10g down 2.5g up
<whitequark> I cannot fathom what purpose could having 10gbps of bandwidth at one's home possibly serve
<whitequark> last time I was downloading 30TB of archives, my hard drives bottomed out at around 180mbps, limited by random I/O
<wpwrak> 10 Gb sounds useful for people participating in the great distributed cultural heritage archival project, aka download every movie that appears on the usual torrent sites in the highest quality available
<DocScrutinizer05> whitequark: http://neo900.org/news/joerg-pia-2018-03-01
<whitequark> wpwrak: like I said, you're now limited by, at least, hard drives
<whitequark> you're also likely limited by the CPU consumed by verifying blocks, and by the I/O subsystem in the kernel, and by your torrent client, none of which are up to the task of handling even 300mbps (I looked!)
<whitequark> you'll need something absurdly beefy like one of those multisocket xeon motherboards, dozens of 7200rpm hard drives with RAID...
<DocScrutinizer05> whitequark: maybe that's exactly the point: when your local drives are "so slow", better get the data from the cloud
<whitequark> ... and then you'll just bottom out the upload bandwidth of everyone else in the torrent swarm
<whitequark> singlehandedly and simultaneously
<whitequark> I don't think you can actually achieve 10g down even if you're downloading the entire set of movies on rutracker.org
<DocScrutinizer05> well, I usually do this already with my 400mb down cable
<whitequark> DocScrutinizer05: this = ?
<wpwrak> then they feel weak and ask for faster uplinks -> $$$ for the isp. see, it's all a conspiracy :)
<whitequark> oh it's not even that expensive
<DocScrutinizer05> hit / exceed the upload BW of the speedtest and any otherservers
<whitequark> I think their 2gbps plan is around 90 USD per month with commitment
<whitequark> the 10gbps plan is "call us", I presume because they also want to know what the hell are you planning to do with it
<whitequark> or even ask if you have the hardware to handle the bandwidth
<DocScrutinizer05> I honestly wouldn't need those 400 down, I only got it for the associated 25 up
<whitequark> back in Moscow when I needed a lot of DL bandwidth I actually simultaneously called two ISPs and got two uplinks
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<whitequark> then... then I discovered that any old router just cannot handle doing NAT on more than around 80mbps
<DocScrutinizer05> yeah, I got a real router here
<whitequark> so I had to get an EdgeRouter Lite to actually utilize that bandwidth
<DocScrutinizer05> ERpro8 :-)
<wpwrak> the "call us" is probably for the marketing department: "please tell us what this could possibly be used for"
<DocScrutinizer05> or 'please tell us what you're willing to pay for it'
<whitequark> wpwrak: their marketing department already struggles with slower plans so that sounds about right
<whitequark> for 2g they actually split it into two 1g uplinks
<whitequark> so that you can watch IPTV on one and do low-latency gaming on another
<whitequark> what happened to ToS?
<DocScrutinizer05> LOL
<DocScrutinizer05> my IPTV eats max 30Mb/s
<whitequark> maybe they want you streaming movies in 4K or something
<whitequark> though I'm not sure where would you even *find* movies in 4K
<whitequark> DocScrutinizer05: oh fun fact
<whitequark> their IP backbone is only 4tbps
<whitequark> so if 500 customers sign up for that 10gbps plan they can eat PCCW's entire connectivity
<wpwrak> (4k) hmm, if you search for 2160p you should find some stuff
<whitequark> wpwrak: oh they actually tell you how much it costs
<whitequark> 345 USD per month plus 230 USD installation fee
<whitequark> and they connect your PC via a Thunderbolt LAN interface
<wpwrak> eww. appletech
<whitequark> I have a Thunderbolt 3 interface in my Dell XPS 13 9360
<whitequark> I think it even works on Linux
<whitequark> it's kind of amusing though
<whitequark> my *previous* plan was ADSL with 8 Mbps down 1 Mbps up
<whitequark> I imagine this ISP upgrades equipment once every 20 years, but when they do, they do it for 20 years in the future
<wpwrak> my isp recently upgraded me to ~13 Mbps. good enough for what i do :)
<wpwrak> nominally it's ... checking ... 25 Mbps. ah well, 50% overhead and lossage :)
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<opbolt> is there such a thing as a isolated dc-dc buck usb power supply?
<opbolt> isolated dc-dc 5v convters yes but still need the fancy current indication for phones
<opbolt> arr i see theres now china usb isolators at last, couldnt find them before https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?initiative_id=SB_20180319132754&site=glo&g=y&SearchText=usb+isolator&needQuery=n&page=3
<opbolt> heres one, not sure if it has phone current indication circuity https://www.aliexpress.com/item/5V-isolated-power-module-vehicle-mounted-power-USB-output-suitable-for-mobile-phone-charging-navigation-power/32773769334.html?spm=2114.search0104.3.116.4e506221Hp6yR9&ws_ab_test=searchweb0_0,searchweb201602_2_10152_10151_10065_10344_10130_10068_10324_10342_10547_10325_10343_10340_10548_10341_10696_10192_10190_10084_10083_10618_10307_10301_10
<opbolt> 303_10313_10059_10184_10534_100031_10103_10624_10623_443_10622_10621_10620,searchweb201603_2,ppcSwitch_2&algo_expid=134e409c-972f-4830-adc1-b0b51b326e63-17&algo_pvid=134e409c-972f-4830-adc1-b0b51b326e63&transAbTest=ae803_4&priceBeautifyAB=0
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<opbolt> looks cheap,
<opbolt> noisy?
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