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I'm curious what the use case for 2 Gbps is. Perhaps businesses? I had 940 Mbps for a while, but I simply couldn't justify paying the extra cost. I now pay f

I'm curious what the use case for 2 Gbps is. Perhaps businesses? I had 940 Mbps for a while, but I simply couldn't justify paying the extra cost. I now pay for a meager 500 Mbps and usually saturate the remote side. The only services I've found that can utilize that kind of bandwidth are bittorrent (downloading Linux isos) and Epic Store (downloading games).

jdsully 6y ago
The vast majority of home LANs will need an upgrade too. They launched 2.5gpbs and 5gbps ethernet to reduce costs and work with existing CAT-5e cabling, but hardware is extremely limited. 10G is still primarily aimed at enterprise and in most cases will require CAT-6 or fibre which is a very expensive upgrade in addition to the much more expensive NICs.