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by nunez 925 days ago
When you're downloading big files, the difference is definitely perceivable.

I have 5Gbit service, and it is awesome to pull down big files at 100MB/s+ while my wife is watching some 4K thing on Netflix at the same time.
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speff 925 days ago
Using those numbers, you can probably do the same thing on a 1gig service. 4k Netflix seems to top out around 20Mbps.
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nunez 923 days ago
Not when the source you're pulling from has no problem sending you bits at 4Gbps (accounting for overhead) like GCP or AWS (they have to be on like 1Tbps now or something insane like that)
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