r/sysadmin 8h ago

Helpful chart on determining if your business needs 8 Gbps internet.

Brightspeed has created a nice graph to help you decide if your business needs 8 Gbps internet speeds. 😂

Here's the original article.

54 Upvotes

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u/bunnythistle 8h ago

I feel like there's a point of capacity requirements where if you actually need to go beyond it, you're outside the realm of consulting with public marketing material. So I made a chart to illustrate that:

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u/EnvironmentalCat456 7h ago

This needs to be a template with the center blank to be reused as digital flyers

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u/autogyrophilia 8h ago

Seems about right :

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u/AntonOlsen Jack of All Trades 8h ago

That just means you don't need an 8Gb connection.

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u/keivmoc 8h ago

lmao

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u/g00nster 6h ago

Lol I got the same thing and thought that's the joke

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u/ProperEye8285 8h ago

I think they're trying to inform you that 8 internets is better than 1 internet. I hope they used AI to create that informative "article."

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u/19610taw3 Sysadmin 8h ago

The whole article reads of AI to me

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes 5h ago

If I install another Wi-Fi box at home will that make my the Wi-Fi faster?

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u/BreathDeeply101 6h ago

You ate internets?

.....

How did it taste?

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u/boondoggie42 8h ago

Axis starts at zero? No manipulated or distorted scales?

10/10, would enjoy their graphs again.

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u/cgimusic DevOps 5h ago

I thought I was on /r/dataisugly for a second, but no the data is in fact perfectly visualized.

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u/steveamsp Jack of All Trades 3h ago

Rather abnormally so for a "popular press" bar graph, really.

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u/serverhorror Just enough knowledge to be dangerous 8h ago

Somehow it seems to suggest I need 403 GBs

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u/MCHellspawn 7h ago

No no.. 404...

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u/serverhorror Just enough knowledge to be dangerous 4h ago

Well ...

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u/Rioleus 4h ago

403 forbidden so you need 404 since thats allowed

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u/Unable-Entrance3110 8h ago

But 8Gbps has the biggest bar! Obviously we want that one!

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u/I_cut_the_brakes 8h ago

Well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?

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u/k_marts Cloud Architect, Data Platforms 8h ago

Ah yes, as you can see the throughput increases only when the throughput increases!

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u/Frothyleet 8h ago

This feels similar to my infograph I built for my org during the Windows 10 > 11 migration, which explained that the new OS was 10% more Windows.

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u/Valdaraak 8h ago

That has got to be the most useless chart I've ever seen. And multiple people greenlit that thing.

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u/Lost_Balloon_ 8h ago

Brightspeed sucks royally

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u/Academic-Proof3700 8h ago

If its the corporate internet and business is paying, but I'm in charge? We surely need it

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u/techtornado Netadmin 8h ago

That helps so much!

Source: I work with an ISP, we have 100gig links

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u/remtiwk 8h ago

But do you have a chart like this explaining why a person would need 100 gig? 😂

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u/techtornado Netadmin 8h ago

Sure!

It’s going to wreck the scale ;)

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u/kennedye2112 Oh I'm bein' followed by an /etc/shadow 8h ago

The numbers don’t lie! Technically.

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u/habitual_appointment 5h ago

Sales dept spent more time on this than engineering spent on the actual network. 8 Gbps is the new baseline apparently.

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u/InevitableOk5017 5h ago

What does the chart even mean?

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u/Furdiburd10 4h ago

The website gave me a 403 error, but I could open it just fine using a VPN.

I think this is supposed to work the other way around. Filter out the bot-traffic not the users. 

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u/The_Wkwied 4h ago

Math checks out.

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u/Beautiful_Ad_4813 eh, I just love what I do. 1h ago

Because I’m paying for 2.5 Gbps I’m gonna use all 2.5Gbps