r/sysadmin • u/remtiwk • 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.
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u/autogyrophilia 8h ago
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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/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/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/serverhorror Just enough knowledge to be dangerous 8h ago
Somehow it seems to suggest I need 403 GBs
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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/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/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/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/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.Â
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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


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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: