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I'm still on the cheapest plan I could find, which is 60 Mbps for $40/month. Even if fiber were $70/month, I'm not sure I would buy it, as 60 Mbps seems to be doing the job fine. What kind of things would 1 Gbps allow me to do that I currently cannot, that would justify an extra $30/month?


You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. The difference between 60 and 1000mbit is not in allowing you previously impossible things. It is the same difference as between spinning rust and SSDs. It affects every single interaction you have with the networks to reduce friction as much as possible on your end, and also improves parallelization capabilities.

Downloading of small files will change from being a fraction of a second to nigh-imperceptible, and as long as the remote side supports it, this will apply to all images on a website at once. And no longer will downloading a game on steam mess with your youtube/netflix/whatever.


Everything you do now, but faster? I have GF and I don't know how I will ever be able to go back to <100Mb if I ever move. I haven't had to wait for _anything_ since I got the gigabit; even multi-gig 4k movies finish downloading before I can finish making my popcorn.




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