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Wouldn't two Steam users downloading a game be enough to notice?
QoS is a thing, so it depends.
Yeah, stream is faster than most Linux torrents in my experience
Steam can do pretty well filling a tail circuit, probably better on average. But a torrent of a large file with a ton of peers when your client has the port forward back into the client absolutely puts more pressure on a tail circuit. More flows makes the shaping work harder.
Sometimes we see an outlier in our reporting and it's not obvious if a customer has a torrent or a DDoS directed at them for the first few minutes.
No, if two 300 megabit tails are shaped correctly, a third user shouldn't notice that the 1G backhaul has got a bunch of use going on.
If you do, there's something wrong or you aren't really getting the 1G for some reason. Not generally a concern in a carrier platform.
Depends. If steam is pulling a full 300mbps on both connections there would still be 40% of the bandwidth available.
I have a 10 gigabit connection at my house (I work for my ISP. Part of my job is setting up and testing brand new equipment). My PC has a 10 gigabit NIC plugged straight in to a 10 gigabit port on my router.
I regularly get 9.5 gigabit on speed tests. Steam rarely breaks 600 megabit on one download. I’m sure they implement some form of QOS on their end so one user can’t take their entire upload capacity at one datacenter.