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They put in fiber in my neighborhood this year.

What is the bees knees version of what I can do with a fiber connection? email server? domains? My own internet access? shared drive with family pics and shit.

What can I do with this fancy fiber connection if I get it installed?

emby wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2024 4:50 pm They put in fiber in my neighborhood this year.

What is the bees knees version of what I can do with a fiber connection? email server? domains? My own internet access? shared drive with family pics and shit.

What can I do with this fancy fiber connection if I get it installed?

Oh, hey, I can answer this!

So having fiber doesn't suddenly mean you can do shit you couldn't do before (to an extent). You could run an email server or domain, etc. over dial-up it'd just be slow as shit.

I got fiber 2 years ago. The biggest difference is that no matter what is going on in my house internet wise shit is still fast. I downloaded Starfield, a 94 GB game, in like 12 minutes last month. For me, the reason I got it is that my neighborhood was actually phase one of the installation of new fiber infrastructure so I got locked in at 45 bucks a month for 2 years for 1Gbps/1Gbps as opposed to paying Spectrum over 90 a month for 300Mbps/10Mbps. It was a no brainer.

As for the viability of the things you brought up, email servers are a fucking pain in the ass to self host and there are so many great, free, and encrypted email services you're basically punishing yourself if you try to run your own. A domain is easily doable provided you have a spare machine that can run some version of windows server or a linux server distro. Your own internet depends on if the fiber is a shared network or dedicated, the former is significantly more common. However, I have never experienced any noticeable throttling of my internet during peak hours. A shared drive is most definitely doable.

If you want to get real fancy build a NAS and then get a mini pc to turn into a Plex machine. Then use radarr, sonarr, lidarr, and prowlarr to scrape the web for shows, music, etc. that you want and it will automatically torrent them and save them to your NAS that will link with your Plex machine. You'll never have to pay for non-live media again.

For a domain controller I would suggest using something like ubuntu server. It's command line only, but I could always walk you through installing a graphical interface that would make it function essentially like Windows from a visual aspect. The reason I suggest a Linux server build over Windows is of course because Linux is free and while it has a higher learning curve it is generally more secure as well.

Edit: You could also viably run a domain controller or plex machine via a virtual machine, I just prefer having a physical unit I can get my hands on if something stops working.

I'd still be limited to the baud rate for bluetooth and wifi connections, right?

Do they still call it a baud rate? That term faded after DSL got us above 56k twenty years ago.

Lmao bitrate (what they call it today) would be virtually limitless for your applications. A basic fiber connection is almost an enterprise level internet solution. You could connect 1000 devices in your home all running simultaneously and as long as they weren't all downloading large files, streaming, or other data heavy activities you'd notice no lag.

Especially in terms of something like an internal media streaming server. That would be more dependent on your cabling/wi-fi as when streaming from that device to another in the same house the data never actually leaves your self contained network and as such is unaffected by the external network's condition.

The Outsider wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 10:50 am Lmao bitrate (what they call it today) would be virtually limitless for your applications. A basic fiber connection is almost an enterprise level internet solution. You could connect 1000 devices in your home all running simultaneously and as long as they weren't all downloading large files, streaming, or other data heavy activities you'd notice no lag.

Especially in terms of something like an internal media streaming server. That would be more dependent on your cabling/wi-fi as when streaming from that device to another in the same house the data never actually leaves your self contained network and as such is unaffected by the external network's condition.

Media server, eh?

I dunno if I wanna go out and download a hadji copy of every movie ever made. Would there be gaming applications? The kids could deathmatch on their own server kinda shit?

emby wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 11:15 am

The Outsider wrote: ↑Fri Jul 12, 2024 10:50 am Lmao bitrate (what they call it today) would be virtually limitless for your applications. A basic fiber connection is almost an enterprise level internet solution. You could connect 1000 devices in your home all running simultaneously and as long as they weren't all downloading large files, streaming, or other data heavy activities you'd notice no lag.

Especially in terms of something like an internal media streaming server. That would be more dependent on your cabling/wi-fi as when streaming from that device to another in the same house the data never actually leaves your self contained network and as such is unaffected by the external network's condition.

Media server, eh?

I dunno if I wanna go out and download a hadji copy of every movie ever made. Would there be gaming applications? The kids could deathmatch on their own server kinda shit?

Most definitely though depending on the games it could require some pretty beefy hardware. A shared media server is pretty easy and if you want to set one up I can walk you through the process in such a way that everything is automated aside from you telling the programs what media you want it to find and download.

For example: Say I want to download the entirety of Grey's Anatomy. That's like 10 billion episodes. I tell Radarr that I want it to download the entirety of the series at a specific resolution and then Radarr uses it's integration with Prowlarr to scrape virtually every torrent site on the web and automatically downloads the media, finds and applies the metadata (in most cases, sometimes this is wonky) and then it indexes everything the specific way you set it up to do so.

Then you link that media archive to Plex which is a streaming application that can be used on pretty much any device these days and now you have a remotely accessible media server that can contain as many shows, movies, songs, and photos as you have storage space. And storage space is cheap. The other good thing about a media server over a dedicated gaming server is that with the media server you only really need to make sure that the drives are top end, the cpu can be mid, the ram can also be mid, and you don't even need a gpu if you have integrated graphics.

Hell you could make this machine out of something like this:

https://www.newegg.com/p/2RC-0DVF-00013 ... TSNK5F9304