[dreamlayers]

I see no evidence that the amazing increase in data transfer rates has increased people's happiness. That is because happiness is a measure of something else, more like how well you're using the opportunities available at the time.

[icedchai]

I'm pretty sure I was happier with 9600 baud back in 1991. Everything felt so new and exciting. The upgrade from 2400 to 9600 bps felt huge. The upgrade from 300 megabits to a gigabit? I hardly noticed.

[mwint]

I’m over here with a 60Mbps connection, and I do fine. Faster would be nice a few times a week for huge downloads, but those are rare in my workflow.

Curious how you got value out of 300Mb, let alone Gb? I feel like I’m missing out and don’t know it.

[wayfinder]

Well I got my benefit at half-gigabit by being able to do off-site backups reasonably. It was not as reasonable before.

Although a more rare use case, I also throw vids on my media server and my friends and family can browse.

It basically opened a new class of applications.

If this was the future and we all had 10 gigabit connections, then I could share videos we’re editing with friends more reasonably.

If we go back in time, the jump from 90’s Internet to modern Internet allowed sites like YouTube and Netflix to exist.

[handyj]

I could have written this post, mwint... From the feels of not getting the need, to the current ~speed you're getting (vdsl2). But, in about a month we'll have a 300 symmetric connection (fttp).

The new FTTP connection is much cheaper was my main motivation. Can't see it making my simple plaything webpages upload noticeably quicker, or the terraform/ansible scripts I play with. I'm also not bothered about how long linux updates take etc, so can't see it being few seconds/min quicker adding anything meaningful. (Disclosure - in my late 40's, perhaps it shows!)

...Boy child and xbox updates, tho - more likely a smile will be raised there.

[unforeseen9991]

I have gigabit fiber so 1gbit up/1gbit down but I really only benefit from the upload speeds with hosting. Most people never use the bandwidth. I only use a fraction of the download but it was only $20 more a month so for me it's worth it especially when sailing the high seas for something new and being able to watch it nearly right away.

[icedchai]

My old connection was 300 megabits down/20 up. I switched to fiber to get (almost) symmetrical gigabit. It mostly helps with backups and pushing docker containers. But I could probably get away with a half gigabit fiber and not notice the difference.

[giantrobot]

I see someone has never had Comcast...

Comcast to...pretty much anything is a breath of fresh air.

[castratikron]

21.6kbps dial up was pretty terrible

[vardump]

But amazing compared to no connection at all.