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 As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years.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 …
Because I have the storage realestate for it and I’d rather download it all now, so I don’t have to do it later.
And downloading even one, when it’s large dozens of GB, a gigabit connection makes a difference.