Fiber just came through my area. They offer up to 3Gbps for less than I was paying for Comcast ~500Mbps asymmetric and for more money I can get 5Gbps... but I j

Fiber just came through my area. They offer up to 3Gbps for less than I was paying for Comcast ~500Mbps asymmetric and for more money I can get 5Gbps... but I just signed up for the 500Mbps symmetric and pocket the difference monthly, because what the hell am I going to do with even 1Gbps? My Wifi can't 5Gbps, and all but two network devices in my house use Wifi to get to the internet. My NVMes can nominally do it, but it takes everything firing on all cylinders to actually achieve that. I've still got some spinning rust that is pretty full up at even the 500Mbps. I do run backups to AWS, but that runs in the nighttime anyhow and could still finish a complete non-incremental backup in 4-5 hours at full speed, and I have incrementals anyhow. Sure, the game per month I download from Steam would be ready in 4 minutes instead of 8, but, seriously, how much am I willing to pay for those four minutes? It's not like I'm staring at the progress bar at that point anyhow. 500Mbps is already enough for me to tailscale my house network up and have every single member of my family accessing the house Jellyfin server remotely simultaneously, which is not a realistic amount of load. 100Mbps down is still plenty for most people. 20Mbps up is definitely making some things annoying but most people will still be fine. It's a fine definition of minimum service for "broadband".