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QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

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306 points carlos-menezes | 2 comments | 19 Oct 24 21:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.403s | source
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lysace ◴[19 Oct 24 21:45 UTC] No.41890996[source]▶
> We find that over fast Internet, the UDP+QUIC+HTTP/3 stack suffers a data rate reduction of up to 45.2% compared to the TCP+TLS+HTTP/2 counterpart.

Haven't read the whole paper yet, but below 600 Mbit/s is implied as being "Slow Internet" in the intro.

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Aurornis ◴[19 Oct 24 22:07 UTC] No.41891146[source]▶
Internet access is only going to become faster. Switching to a slower transport just as Gigabit internet is proliferating would be a mistake, obviously.
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jiggawatts ◴[19 Oct 24 22:15 UTC] No.41891205[source]▶
Here in Australia there’s talk of upgrading the National Broadband Network to 2.5 Gbps to match modern consumer Ethernet and WiFi speeds.

I grew up with 2400 baud modems as the super fast upgrade, so talk of multiple gigabits for consumers is blowing my mind a bit.

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Kodiack ◴[19 Oct 24 22:58 UTC] No.41891437[source]▶
Meanwhile here in New Zealand we can get 10 Gbps FTTH already.

Sorry about your NBN!

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wkat4242 ◴[19 Oct 24 23:09 UTC] No.41891508[source]▶
Here in Spain too.

I don't see a need for it yet though. I'm a really heavy user (it specialist with more than a hundred devices in my networks) and I really don't need it.

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jiggawatts ◴[20 Oct 24 03:20 UTC] No.41892619[source]▶
These things are nice-to-have until they become sufficiently widespread that typical consumer applications start to require the bandwidth. That comes much later.

E.g.: 8K 60 fps video streaming benefits from data rates up to about 1 Gbps in a noticeable way, but that's at least a decade away form mainstream availability.

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1. notpushkin ◴[20 Oct 24 06:31 UTC] No.41893367[source]▶
The other side of this particular coin is, when such bandwidth is widely available, suddenly a lot of apps that have worked just fine are now eating it up. I'm not looking forward to 9 gigabyte Webpack 2036 bundles everywhere :V
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2. wkat4242 ◴[20 Oct 24 15:35 UTC] No.41896006[source]▶
Yeah for me it's mostly ollama models lol. It is nice to see it go fast. But even on my 1gbit it feels fast enough.