What...on...earth...could you possibly do with that? I have 50Mbps and feel like that's kind of absurd.
Netflix recommends 25Mbps for streaming 4K video. [1]
So....streaming a dozen 4K movies simultaneously?
Sub-minute downloads of entire OS images? [2]
In addition to this, not everyone is doing bbr+fq_codel or cake traffic shaping, so they need the burst overhead capacity. Even those using fq_codel seldom have the right options set. And even then, most consumer routers have low end cpu's and barely any L1/L2 cache. HTB adds a lot of context switching on the router. If you hit the buffer on your cable modem or CMTS, then real time applications get a lot of jitter.
The other issue is the mix of operating systems in the household. Not every OS may be doing fair congestion control or even support/enable ECN. Not every consumer modem supports ECN properly.
My question was not how well a full pipe is handled, but What can you even possibly fill it up with?
And you can load news websites that "need" 2000 assets in less than 2 minutes. I think that is mostly it, so that you can suffer more advertisement in higher resolution.
I can download most games from Steam in a few minutes.
I can download twice a year Ubuntu upgrade very fast.
Aside that, I can satisfy 100Mbps bandwidth.
Granted, that would be nice. I avoid anything requiring an reinstall like the plague for this very reason.