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 As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years.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 …
I’m big on selfhosting and WFH, so symmetric 1Gbs is huge for me. Different people have different needs. My same provider offers symmetric 2.5Gbs, but my router and switch can’t handle that. YET!