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by Shank 1397 days ago
> I have 1G symmetric FTTH internet, the bottleneck is still the services I want to access at the other end - really makes no difference how much faster the pipe is, if the service you are using can't keep up.

I can definitely hit this with one Steam download. If any more users want to download games, they can easily compete for 1G.

Netflix and other services have relatively low bitrate streams too. If I could get higher quality / higher bitrate streams, I’d prefer that over what most streaming services offer too.

I think it’s easy to think things are good enough without looking too deep into the details. You’re used to 1G. But a lot of people are used to a lot more and a lot less.

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>>You’re used to 1G. But a lot of people are used to a lot more and a lot less.

Trust me, I am not used to it (at least not yet)- I have only had it for 5+ months - I have been WFH for more than 25 years and only had access to 3Mbs DSL before this.

Ive hit 5gbps at my dorm room, I had upto 10gbps only issue it was shared with the entire base and at the time only had 2 10gbps trunks out of the ISP. They later upgraded to 2 40gbps from NTT.
60 mbit 4k (same as bluray) would be sick