[jen20]

It's not remotely marginal when you have ~4 TVs at a time streaming 4K, two people working at home on video calls, constant cloud backup and so forth. I currently have 5Gbit, and will upgrade to 10 the second it becomes available. With better bandwidth _typically_ also comes better latency, and more competently managed DNS, though your own DNS setup is still likely better than whatever you privacy-invading-telemetry-hungry ISP sets up.

[nirav72]

Curious - Are you really maxing out that 5gbit connection where you would need to upgrade to 10gb? I have the 1 gbps symmetrical service from AT&T and have never maxed it out. Even with 2 adults working from home and 2 teenagers. All of us usually streaming something on different devices on weekends at max resolution, plus game downloads via steam/xbox gamepass, backup jobs pulled from friend's homelab, my own backup transfers to another offsite location, in addition to me self-hosting bunch of stuff that I share with family & friends, I've yet to max out that 1 gbps pipe.

The fastest transfers I've seen from source is from Xbox game pass downloads on a PC coming it at 150-200 mbps. Even 4K streaming is usually no more than 20-25 mbps/stream. AT&T keeps sending out flyers enticing me to upgrade to the new 2gbps or 5 gbps service. But again, even during heavy usage I have plenty of bandwidth leftover. So I'm wondering how one maxes out a 5 gbps connection.

[doubleg72]

No, he isn’t. We do that with a 400Mbps connection at home. The hospital system I admin the network for doesn’t even see that, and we move a lot of data.

[jen20]

According to my gateway, yes, I am. Not often, but often enough that the extra cost is a rounding error.

[bobdvb]

Streaming UHD is typically less than 25Mbps per device, Netflix goes as low as 15Mbps.

Video conferencing is typically about 5-15Mbps.