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I'm going to disagree. I have 5Gbit FTTH and it is SO NICE to have large files download almost as quickly as pulling from an old hard drive. Used to have 1Gbit before.

People were saying the same thing about 10Mbps 15 years ago.

Things change, and 25Gbps is massive future proofing for the next 50 years probably.

My point is I don’t even come close to the bandwidth limits. My latency is excellent. I had coax based internet and it was going down a lot. I switched to fiber about 5-6 years ago. Never went down once

Yes, and my point is 10 years from now when you are streaming your 16k Netflix movie while saving all you 8k cctv camera footage to the cloud you might have a different opinion about gigabit internet.

Money has a time value. It's better to build things just before you need them than decades prior.

It's more of a "wow how could I have tolerated 500mbps" once you experience 1gbps and 10gbps.

realistically the only part at half a gb/s I'd care is latency. Latency is a lot more important than the throughput.

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