[Szpadel]

I have 1gb connection and I agree that 99% of the time this isn't utilized, but it's very helpful when you want to download anything, from new steam game, through system updated to for me work related usage. this isn't that much about you can download per month, but how fast you can do it when you need something

[gustavus]

Honestly everytime I've tried downloading a large file the bottleneck is on the serving end, where they aren't able to send that much data that fast.

[wing-_-nuts]

You can use something called lftp to transfer single files using multiple connections at once, I'm sure there's similar switches for wget or curl

[mksybr]

If there's a torrent available you can get better speed. Helpful for Linux installation ISOs