[ryanmercer]

>I don't disagree with you, but I think most HN readers are power users.

A percentage of HN readers perhaps. Gigabit isn't even available here in Indy for the vast majority of people.

Fastest I can get is '100mbps' for 60$ a month plus fees with a 1TB cap and it's not even close to actually being 100mbps from AT&T. Netflix degrades itself probably once an hour on average while watching HD (not 4K) and if nothing is running I'm lucky if I can pull 500-750 kilobytes a second (a whopping 4-6% of my advertised speed) from my gigabit server I rent (but a friend in another city with gigabit can almost max out his advertised speed pulling from it).

Allegedly AT&T has up to gigabit for about 20% of the city if you happen to live in a fiber neighborhood. If I went witha business line, at a considerably higher cost (if they'd even allow it at a residential address) I could get up to '300mbps'.

I've been seeing people talk about gigabit at their homes for years no and I'm just like "whatev!".