I recently got 1.5Gbit fiber in Toronto (it was only $10 more than gigabit, and that was only ~$20 more than 250Mbit...) Anyway, it hasn't been hugely transfor

I recently got 1.5Gbit fiber in Toronto (it was only $10 more than gigabit, and that was only ~$20 more than 250Mbit...) Anyway, it hasn't been hugely transformative, but it alleviates a few headaches: 1) The biggest benefit is that uploads/downloads are symmetric. If you backup to the cloud, this is a big deal. All of the "definitely overnight" stuff can now be done in under an hour anytime. 2) I never worry about what anyone else in the house is doing. Stream all you want over wifi, there'll still be a full gigabit of bandwidth for my workstation. I don't have to mess with QoS or anything; there's literally just an oversupply of bandwidth. In fact, until I upgrade to 2.5 or 5gbit ethernet I literally can't saturate my connection... 3) I'm less likely to hoard stuff. I don't bother downloading steam games in advance and keeping them installed forever; I just download on demand and delete it after I'm done with it. This is currently allowing me to transition everything to SSDs.