[cmrdporcupine]

Indeed many people, including myself are now in the weird backwards world where the WAN is far faster than the LAN.

I have a 3gbps fiber link straight to my house. The only machines in the house that can use anything close to it are the ones that hook up to my USB-C docking station which has a 2.5gbps ethernet port. Everything else is WiFi speeds.

EDIT: This was a sudden change. I live rural and for the last 10 years I only had 10-15mbps speeds top, and most recently only by point to point wireless from a tower 5km away.

[bombcar]

The advantage of a fast WAN is you can put it into a capable router (2.5-5-10g) and break it out into multiple clients who can use it simultaneously even if at only 1g each.

[HPsquared]

This also applies for wireless technology. My phone generally gets a faster connection via 4G, than via WiFi inside my house (the cable connection is fast, but the WiFi is slow). I think because the 4G connection can always see a tower through a window opening, while the WiFi has to go through multiple walls. (No interest in setting up a mesh network as the 4G is plenty fast enough)