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Is it really that crazy? 1 gig is overkill for the vast majority of people as it is.

• thfuran 3y ago
  You (well, perhaps not specifically you, depending on your address) can easily get a consumer internet package that'd fully saturate 1gbps. You can buy consumer wireless access points that can serve over 1gbps. You can buy consumer network drives which are physically capable of saturating 10gbps. Modern USB already has transfer rates higher than 10gbps. It's far less outlandishly fast than 1gbps was when that was rolling out.
  • therealcamino 3y ago
    Yes, the things it's connected to can saturate a 1 Gbps link. But few people feel any pain points that would lead them to want to upgrade. I've only ever saturated mine with speed test sites.
  • EricE 3y ago
    I have gigabit internet and the only time it even remotely comes close to saturation is when Steam kicks off a large update. And then it's done, in minutes at a most. Unless you are copying large media files around all day, gigabit is complete overkill for the vast majority of people.