Internet connectivity is all about maximum capacity. Everything past that is just sunk costs. It doesn't cost anything more to use it at maximum capacity than

Internet connectivity is all about maximum capacity. Everything past that is just sunk costs. It doesn't cost anything more to use it at maximum capacity than it does to just leave it on standby. (The end points MIGHT use a TINY bit more power, but we're talking on the order of cents per month for terrabytes/month of traffic; it's a rounding error.)