And like 1/10 houses are actually networked well enough to even use a 300 mbit connect.
The only practical difference I’ve seen is upload. Cable internet is usually slow enough to impact actual use.
I very rarely have use for capacity beyond 40Mbps, or perhaps even 25. 4K streaming is as demanding as it gets. If 40Mbps is appreciably cheaper than 100, I'll take 40.
If your Internet connection can't handle video chat and streaming, then you're right to say you don't have a decent modern Internet connection, and it's holding back what you can do. Capacity beyond 40Mbps, though, is rarely of any real consequence.
(I mean this in the particular context of home broadband, of course.)
But the thing is that thanks to fiber there's hardly any difference price wise. So why not use it, when it's on offer?
Before that I had 100Mb up and down and was pretty happy with it. Large games could be a bit of a drag. Especially when GTA5 became available and I wanted to play it right now!
Once the JSON parses, that is ;-P
I've had 1Gbps before, and it was fantastic.
Checking out repositories is a rare event. It's even rarer to check out repositories weighing tens of gigabytes, such that throughput in excess of 100Mbps is noticeable.
As I said in my reply to CaptainZapp, it's generally fine if a background process like a backup takes several hours, and that's just for the few people who need to backup tens of gigabytes of data to the Internet every day. For everyone else, 100Mbps is far more than enough.
For most home users in particular, capacity beyond 40Mbps rarely brings any benefit.
If you want to run several 4K streams at once, you'll need more than 40Mbps. I don't think many households have this requirement though.
If you're regularly dealing with huge video files, then sure, you may be in the small minority that really does benefit from an extremely fast connection.
And yes I regularly have PDFs and PPTs of that size (thank you web agencies that keep on sending 20 pages product kit with 8K background pictures).
I do agree it's overkill and we all could do without if we prepared better but that's how it is.
What use would you have for throughput in excess of 100Mbps?