Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
  • JoeyHarrington@lemmy.caEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    That guy is not a power user. Everybody’s use case is different. His opinion is great for him but I wasted my time reading that. Get off my lawn.

    • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      Meh, he has a point. For WFH I do a lot of large file transfers, often, plus Teams meetings, and streaming media. I have found 300 is OK, 500 is ideal. 1gig is not really worth the extra cost, unless it is symmetrical. Even then though the receiver often can’t receive at that high speed.

      • JoeyHarrington@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        It’s getting cheaper and cheaper. For me 1 gb is fantastic for wfh, multiple gamer children, video streaming, photo uploads and nobody notices when I’m downloading 100gb of data. Again everybody’s situation is different, so for me 1gb has been huge. And that makes the blanket statement about it not being worth it false.