[johnwalkr]

That’s not my experience at all. I had 10Gbps internet in Tokyo. In normal browsing there wasn’t much difference between using wifi which I normally did and connecting by 10Gbps Ethernet. But downloading on steam was one case where the difference was amazing, I could download a AAA game in 1-2 minutes instead of 10-20.

[zbrozek]

I find that Steam decompression pegs one core of my CPU and downloads get stuck at 550-600 mbps. It would take a lot less time if it didn't compress anything.

[mlyle]

Yup, about the same for me (maybe slightly faster).

Sometimes games have assets that compress really well, and then I end up downloading at 400mbps and maxing out my SSD writing.

[zbrozek]

Haha, yeah I bet most people who play games these days have a faster CPU than I do. My machine is eight years old.

[Salgat]

In my experience you hit those speeds if you happen to be few short hops from the server/CDN.