[Sohcahtoa82]

> Home connections are plenty fast these days.

No, they're not.

Sure, if you live somewhere where you can get 1 gigabit fiber, maybe. But I know Comcast/Xfinity throttles the crap out of your upload. Even if you get their 1 gigabit plan, your upload is limited to 35 mbps [0].

To put that into perspective, if you have a 1 megabyte image that ends up getting linked on reddit and 100,000 people try to download it in an hour, then you'd need over 200 Mbps upload. Very very few home users have that kind of connection.

[0] https://www.cabletv.com/xfinity/internet

[dboreham]

This isn't how IPFS works FWIW. Your upstream connection is only needed to feed the small number of fetches that aren't cached somewhere else in the network. Much the same as a traditional CDN in that respect.

[Sohcahtoa82]

Ah okay. Thank you for the clarification.

It sounds similar to Freenet then, with perhaps less of a stress on anonymity.

[RKearney]

> But I know Comcast/Xfinity throttles the crap out of your upload. Even if you get their 1 gigabit plan, your upload is limited to 35 mbps [0].

Odd that you choose their second highest tier to fit your narrative instead of just jumping to their highest tier with is actually symmetrical 2Gbps up and down fiber.

[montecarl]

Are you talking about the "gigabit pro" plan[1]? That is a $300/mo with a 2 year minimum subscription. That clearly is not a residential plan. You might as well just pay for professional hosting at that point.

[1] https://www.cabletv.com/xfinity/internet

[Sohcahtoa82]

> That is a $300/mo with a 2 year minimum subscription.

Also, that $300/month is the introductory price. Lord knows what the actual price is once the initial 2 year period is over.

[RKearney]

> That clearly is not a residential plan.

That's exactly what it's marketed as. There are also plenty of symmetrical fiber services with hundreds of Mbps of upload from Frontier, Verizon, AT&T, and others.

[Sohcahtoa82]

Just because it's marketed as a residential line doesn't mean it's common at all. Besides, that line, or even the gigabit line, is not available in a very large market.

> There are also plenty of symmetrical fiber services with hundreds of Mbps of upload from Frontier, Verizon, AT&T, and others.

Most people don't have a lot of options.

The options in my neighborhood are either 150 mbps down/5 mbps up with Comcast, or 35 mbps symmetrical with Frontier.

If you have more than two options, and one of them is gigabit, you're extremely lucky. A considerable chunk of America only has 1 option, and the extreme majority doesn't have gigabit down, let alone gigabit up.

[RKearney]

> Just because it's marketed as a residential line doesn't mean it's common at all

Just because something is expensive and therefore unpopular to your average consumer does not mean the product itself does not exist. If we're talking about residential ISP speed, then all residential ISPs and their respective tiers should be included.

Otherwise you're just picking and choosing data points to fit a narrative which is deceiving.

[insulanus]

That's hardly available to the average home user.

[dwild]

It's odds that in his example he use the second highest tier to fit the average user? I call that generous if anything.

[superkuh]

If you think 35 mbps isn't enough to spare a couple megabits for hosting a personal website then your personal is entirely different than mine.

Are you slipping back out of context to talk about business again?