[saiya-jin]

Unless you are say say pro competitive gamer (lag) or doing sone fringe science, anything above 1gbs real speed is useless these days.

I have it, or slightly below, with pings around 7ms, and... as a regular user with some modest 10tb movies and games collection, 99% of the cases 100mbit is more than fine, and the rest covers rest.

No place for anxious ocd types, but low ping and overall reliability of the connection are way more important to me, even for fetching 70gb+ games. Not only due to wfh, but also for that.

[10000truths]

Multiplayer games usually care more about latency than throughput. Modern FPSs can use as little as 250-500 kbps of bandwidth, but they'll play like crap if your RTT to the game server is >100ms.

[civiloid]

True, but in my case, reliability and even price (per month) of going to 10 Gbps vs. 25 Gbps is the same.

And what I see as a use case - is when multiple people in my household would do heavy downloads simultaneously. Also, I hope I will get better-downloading speed (Steam, GoG, etc.) as with modern games, it becomes more critical, and I'll be keener to play and remove a game if I want to put in on pause, compared to keeping 3-4 100+ GB games installed at the same time.

[holoduke]

Or if you want to download a 4k torrent on the fly. A 40gb file will take only 2 to 5 minutes to download. Almost instantly.