I don't need faster internet. If they had a 2mbps connection for $15, I'd be happy.
Instead, the slowest is 20mbps, for $70. To watch youtube. Wtf do I need all the extra speed for???
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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That's cool but I don't get the point if it's for residential. For 99% of usecases 1gigabit is more than enough, probably even 100mbit. Maybe it could facilitate new technologies that wouldn't be viable with slower residential connections, but at these speeds the bigger problem starts being the serverside and clientside processing of all that data. No service is ever going to let you get even close to that bandwidth for a single user.
I've enough with my 600Mbs, 50Gbs for an normal user don't make much sense, it's more interesting for big Companies with a huge data traffic or for stock options. For straming movies and downloading some piracy soft, are 200Mbs way enough.