[fulafel]

I think this shows a mindset difference in how we think about net connectivity vs other capacities. For things like power grid connections, car horsepowers etc, we like to size things so that we don't max them out very often.

For eg a 150 GB game download on your console, a 25G connection sounds useful.

And of course a fast connection also enables new kinds of applications when enough people have them (eg game consoles could use networked on-demand storage for assets so wouldn-t be size limited by console SSD capacities). As long as bandwidth is very unequal between users, the faster end doesn't get applications built for it. That's why we should enact policies that make fast connections widely available. Fiber is cheap after all.