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The best reason for this level of service is: You get to stop caring. It's fast enough that everyone you invite over can do _everything_ on hardline and they w

The best reason for this level of service is: You get to stop caring. It's fast enough that everyone you invite over can do _everything_ on hardline and they won't impact each other. As others have mentioned you could also actually run (personal) servers at home as well. * Games, with higher bandwidth (audio, video conferencing) * Live auto-video conferencing the easy P2P way. * Have a media library of your own and access it while out. This can include private video memories, not just photos. However you could also store and forward images of legitimately purchased HD content* (Assuming you support the private use format shifting doctrines). * If you're teaching a class from home that video-call could be self hosted, rather than routed through a data center half a country away.

paxys 6y ago
While all this is true, you hit the "not caring" stage well before 10gig. I have a reliable 100 Mbps connection at the moment and do almost everything mentioned above (simultaneously) with zero disruption. Almost every internet problem people have is due to latency, jitter and general unreliability rather than bandwidth.
- arkitaip 6y ago
  Depends. A AAA game like Red Dead Redemption 2 can take hours to download with a 100 Mbps connection.
  - paxys 6y ago
    You are going to be throttled by the CDN in any case well before reaching gigabit download speeds.
  - mywittyname 6y ago
    You can't really download games from PSN at anywhere close to that speed anyway. I have a hardwired gigabit connection to my PS4 and I'm lucky to hit 100Mb download. It's a similar story with Steam, when the stars align it might hit 500Mb for a minute right before finishing, but it usually hovers around 100-200Mb too. It's also much faster than the speeds of rotational hard drives, so unless you keep HD video on SSDs, it's no good for that either. Beyond speedtests, the only way I can realistically saturate my internet connection is through S3.

paxys 6y ago

While all this is true, you hit the "not caring" stage well before 10gig. I have a reliable 100 Mbps connection at the moment and do almost everything mentioned above (simultaneously) with zero disruption. Almost every internet problem people have is due to latency, jitter and general unreliability rather than bandwidth.

arkitaip 6y ago
Depends. A AAA game like Red Dead Redemption 2 can take hours to download with a 100 Mbps connection.
- paxys 6y ago
  You are going to be throttled by the CDN in any case well before reaching gigabit download speeds.
- mywittyname 6y ago
  You can't really download games from PSN at anywhere close to that speed anyway. I have a hardwired gigabit connection to my PS4 and I'm lucky to hit 100Mb download. It's a similar story with Steam, when the stars align it might hit 500Mb for a minute right before finishing, but it usually hovers around 100-200Mb too. It's also much faster than the speeds of rotational hard drives, so unless you keep HD video on SSDs, it's no good for that either. Beyond speedtests, the only way I can realistically saturate my internet connection is through S3.