Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
  • dparticiple@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Good question. Mostly 2.5Gbps cards and 1Gbps (or less) wireless, but the value is in the aggregate use of the network - I have a decent homelab, Tailscale for accessing things while on the road, various streaming things and so on. I will likely add a 5Gpbs card to my next server build.

    My ISP keeps encouraging me to upgrade to 7Gpbs symmetric, but even I don’t need that much bandwidth (yet!)

    FWIW, the speedy fiber service costs about a third less than the cable service it replaced, which was a fraction of the speed.