[AndroTux]

Honestly, for most applications at home, I struggle to justify even 1 Gbit/s. At my location, I have the option to upgrade to a 1 Gbit/s connection at the click of a button. I currently get 500/500 Mbit/s for ~45€ per month. 1 Gbit/s would cost around 100€ per month.

I often think about how I could justify the increase in price for myself, but I always come to the conclusion that I just don't need it. And I am a heavy internet user. I download a lot, and I upload a lot (which is why I'm very grateful for my 500 Mbit/s in upload speed). But even with "just" 500 Mbit/s, downloading a 100 GB game takes about 30 minutes. And that's provided I have an endpoint available that can supply the full 500 Mbit/s, which is surprisingly often not the case.

If I happen to need 100 GB of data, I can wait 30 minutes.

Disclaimer: I'm talking about uplink here. Internally, between my PCs, my home server and my NAS, I'm currently looking into getting 10 Gbit/s set up. And yes, I'm sure there are some use cases out there that benefit from 1 Gbit/s uplink. But I, as a power internet user, have decided for myself that I just don't need it, which means that the average Joe definitely doesn't need it.

Still, I think it's great that it's available here and I'm all for getting that expanded further.