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My ethernet is also capped at 1 Gb/s for most of my computers. The 10 Gb/s connection is still useful as it makes sure that things running at different devices won't affect each other. Streaming won't affect games won't affect work-related video calls. It's great.

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Yes, in that sense you'd have a "dedicated" 1Gbps for each device. But realistically, how often do you need that?

I don't know about you, but the only time I would reach such a peak would be in case I download something huge while watching Netflix at 4k (which I don't have) and while at the same time downloading an update for my phone and a game for the PS5 (which I don't own).

I would argue that the likelihood of all the above things happening at the same time is quite low, at least for me :)

Perhaps we would not have to rely on other entities such as Apple/Google/Microsoft/Dropbox/etc to serve our content if we had decent upload bandwidth at home.

I mean in 1980 how often did you need 128kb ISDN? A hunter gatherer would have told you they have no use for a spaceship, yet modern society uses them do deploy satellites of all kinds. Just because you dont have a need doesnt mean that needs dont exist.

I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that as of today, I personally think it's useless.

Sure, being 10Gbps-ready is already awesome, but it feels like buying a 16k TV today. For some niche use cases it might make sense, but until this technology is mainstream and makes sense it would take a while

Families with two teenagers could easily hit 3x 4K Netflix/YouTube streams, 2x gamers and 1 backup sync at the same time.

But even such high peaks should be covered by “only” 1G.

The last time i streamed 4K video while gaming on my PS4 during a work related video calls was just a couple days ago.

Joke aside. I get your point, but how many people do you have to have on a single 1 Gbit line to saturdate it? Some things will get faster for sure (like downloading large files, if the other side is fast enough), but I feel like most of the time it's driving a Ferrari within a city.

> it's driving a Ferrari within a city.

Given that this article is about Zurich... that's a very apt analogy.

I have taken over quite a lot of Ferraris in Zurich by a bicycle on the bicycle road when I was living there, it was always fun :)

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