Neil BrownRE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116702950432997168
Yep. This.
And I *do* self-host a load of stuff. And I still do not come close to using 1Gbit.
SleepyCatten (Metastable, Skill Regression Arc)We're on 900 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up with Zen. It often ends up being faster in practice (just tested at 921.37 and 111.11).
Whilst we don't need the speed every moment of the day, any time we need to download something large, or we have simultaneous downloads, it really does make a difference to us.
Typically individual things max out at around 75 MB/s (600 Mbps) download, but this means that, in real terms, we never saturate the line with one thing. As a result, nothing else slows down.
For QOL, it's seemless.
As such, we'd say that it might be more than is needed for some folx, but we'd much rather have the additional bandwidth available than not, and we'd never want to go back to FTTC after experiencing FTTP.
bachimusprime@SleepyCatten @neil i used to have gigabit cable, and it was a fucking BLAST downloading 3 TB of stuff in just a few DAYS using only HALF my bandwidth or so lmao (50 MB/s)