>I have fiber at my house and do about 920mb/s both up and down. It’s only a matter of time before that becomes almost universally common enough to rule out ban

>I have fiber at my house and do about 920mb/s both up and down. It’s only a matter of time before that becomes almost universally common enough to rule out bandwidth from any consideration. I hope you're right. Where I live (the US), most ISPs have cable TV systems, interests in streaming platforms, or both. That provides incentives to maintain the status quo WRT asymmetric links and centralization. ISPs like Verizon, which had previously pushed hard on fiber deployment, are refocusing on wireless, as that's a much bigger profit center for them. I hope you're right about the inevitability of (multi-)GB/sec symmetric connections, but the current incentive structure argues against it, at least in the US. Which is why I believe that last-mile FTTP[0] should largely be local, public/quasi-public[1] utilities that support themselves by selling interconnects to multiple ISPs. Those ISPs can then compete on speed, price, services, etc. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_x#FTTP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_x#FTTP [1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quasi_public_corporation.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quasi_public_corporatio...