You wouldn't notice a difference for general internet use, even moving between 30 to 100.

If you do lots of cloud based work, or there are multiple people in the household watching HD streams, gaming and torrenting it could make a difference in speed overall.

jonb:

 

You wouldn't notice a difference for general internet use, even moving between 30 to 100.

 

 

 

If you do lots of cloud based work, or there are multiple people in the household watching HD streams, gaming and torrenting it could make a difference in speed overall.

 

Thanks jonb.

I need to log into my work VPN, so I'm guessing that would be better. We quite often have 2 kids streaming on iPad's and then us watching Netflix / Hulu. I guess I just need to go ahead and sign up for the speed boost. 

I doubt it will make any difference to the things you mention. I had it and downgraded and the only thing I occasionally notice the difference in is steam\linux iso downloads. But not enough to pay extra for it. Also keep in mind the fact that it will cost you $50 to downgrade once you have it.

(EDIT: Just to put it into perspective when you say you might have a couple of kids streaming and you - an HD stream only uses like 5Mbps... so you're going to need to start running a lot more streams before you start saturating your existing 100Mbps link.  Not sure what you're doing on your VPN to work... but again I think it's unlikely you'll be doing anything that would use more than a fraction of your existing link)

IMHO if your on a budget, its not worth it at all.

If you have a lot of people in your house and download (an awful lot) then you will notice a small benefit.

My VDSL was on 70/27 then I moved to temp accommodation while my house is being built, we have 30/10 UFB here and it is fine. The only time its annoying is if I download a lot. Internet browsing etc is arguably better because its fibre.

Yeah, I just ordered fibre today and my company pays for it. I'm a heavy user, I host stuff, I do large online backups (of RAW photos archived to Backblaze)... I ordered the 100Mbps product. I'll try that first but I probably won't bother upgrading to anything quicker...

Part of my day job is developing tests for gig services as well... Man it's phenomenally hard to even synthetically create something that can reliably test multiple hundreds of megabits... No-one has come up with a single good reason (that I have heard) for greater than 200Mbps for residential use so far.

When there are use cases that require more than 100Mbps then I'll upgrade :-)

Cheers - N

yitz: Gigabit broadband is about delivering unconstrained Internet access speeds to your home network.

i.e. bragging rights

There was something on slashdot about some guy got 10 gig internet now. Typical.

I like it that I can watch a 2 hour movie in one hour. Saves a lot if time.  :-)

tdgeek:

 

I like it that I can watch a 2 hour movie in one hour. Saves a lot if time.  :-)

 

[I know you're joking :-)]

Actually, I watch a lot of tutorial youtube videos in 1.25 or 1.5 speed. There's a lot of great material on there that doesn't need to be paced as slowly as it is...

Cheers -N

Talkiet:

 

[I know you're joking :-)]

 

Actually, I watch a lot of tutorial youtube videos in 1.25 or 1.5 speed. There's a lot of great material on there that doesn't need to be paced as slowly as it is...

 

It would be even better if it would skip over the "let me just put the camera down for a bit" and all the dicking around trying to focus that people seem incapable of editing out.

Talkiet:

 

Yeah, I just ordered fibre today and my company pays for it. I'm a heavy user, I host stuff, I do large online backups (of RAW photos archived to Backblaze)... I ordered the 100Mbps product. I'll try that first but I probably won't bother upgrading to anything quicker...

 

Part of my day job is developing tests for gig services as well... Man it's phenomenally hard to even synthetically create something that can reliably test multiple hundreds of megabits... No-one has come up with a single good reason (that I have heard) for greater than 200Mbps for residential use so far.

 

When there are use cases that require more than 100Mbps then I'll upgrade :-)

 

Cheers - N

 

 

 

no good reason? faster downloading is a pretty good reason. compare 1Gbit vs 100M - download anything over say 25GB and you are saving half an hour easy.

Fiber means you can remove and redownload games as you feel like, rather than feeling that you have to be a digital hoarder with all the steam games you seldom play stuck on an old HDD somewhere just incase you want to play them again. What is a many hour download process becomes a quick easy one.

sorceror:

 

 

 

no good reason? faster downloading is a pretty good reason. compare 1Gbit vs 100M - download anything over say 25GB and you are saving half an hour easy.

 

what hes getting at is that not really a good reason.

Jase2985:

 

sorceror:

 

 

 

no good reason? faster downloading is a pretty good reason. compare 1Gbit vs 100M - download anything over say 25GB and you are saving half an hour easy.

 

 

what hes getting at is that not really a good reason.

 

Is for me. Time saved is more time gaming.