I've had gigabit internet (symmetrical) in my apartment in London for the past ~3years. Some things I've found: Even 802.11ac WiFi is really lacking. Despite

I've had gigabit internet (symmetrical) in my apartment in London for the past ~3years. Some things I've found: Even 802.11ac WiFi is really lacking. Despite link speed being 900mbit, it really struggles to push more than 200mbit/sec. On 802.11n it was more like 90mbit/sec. Torrents are often IO (or even CPU) bound at high speed. I use a transcend drive on my MBP for more space and that seems to max out at 100mbit/sec (yes, bits) with very random read/write like bittorrent. You end up not noticing internet faster than 100/100. I have 0.3ms pings to the local Cloudflare CDN, so latency is not a problem. You do notice slower than that. Especially low upload connections, you are so used to git push taking no time at all, you forget on slow upstream how slow that can feel. While it's nice to have gigabit internet, I would rather 100/100 with low latency (eg: GFast) over 300/30 with variable latency (eg: DOCSIS3). The highest non-4K (I don't have a 4K TV) bitrate I have seen is netflix at around 8mbit/sec, which looks great. I honestly do think BT in the UK is making the right option in choosing a faster/larger deployment of FTTC and GFast over FTTH. Gigabit really isn't that useful, and I can't see this changing for the next few years.