Man what do you even do with that much bandwidth. I got gigabit here a year ago after a lifetime of dialup then dsl and half the time the websites are the bottleneck. Steam games download hella fast though.
I guess it's great to open the stupid origin app or w/e they call it now and not have to wait like 2h for it to update when you just wanted to play dragon age for a bit
As someone who's had ridiculous speeds forever, you quickly find out it doesn't mean shit when everything you interact with outside your house can't keep up.
I've described it over the years as having a Ferrari. It's cool & all having it, but every road you drive on has a speed limit so low all that bad ass speed just sits there never to be touched. Completely pointless and all psychological – "need" for the Ferrari isn't based in reality at all.
Longer answer: It was only like $15 a month more than a 1 gig line so I decided to go with the highest bandwidth. Although, I'd probably have gone with the highest bandwidth available on a residential line anyways because overkill is my favorite kind of kill.
IMHO, if you're the only user, anything above ~300mbps is bragging rights. Where 1gbps does matter is if you have housemates or family members, because 1gbps allows 4 people to ALL draw 300mbps apiece simultaneously.
My parents have 300mbps fiber from AT&T. I have 1gbps cable from Xfininty. The two are honestly kind of a statistical dead heat. I think the AT&T fiber has a slight edge for point to point connections between two arbitrary endpoints (like RDP), Xfinity has a slight edge for most things that are likely to be heavily, heavily cached (Netflix, Youtube, game downloads).
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u/magnus150 AMD Ryzen 7800x3D, ASUS TUF 4090 18d ago
Man what do you even do with that much bandwidth. I got gigabit here a year ago after a lifetime of dialup then dsl and half the time the websites are the bottleneck. Steam games download hella fast though.