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Originally Posted by Renate
I got microwave this year for 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up and I'm grateful.
Before that there have been times that dialup Morse code would have been an improvement.
I consider myself a fairly "hard-core" computer user and still can't think of ways where >10 Mbps would be that much of an improvement for me. (YMMV)
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1) There is more than 1 of us.
2) Unlimited is a myth. See Fair Usage. Initially the Microwave link had a 20Gbyte rolling 30 days cap. Then 6OG, then 350Gbyte, no doubt as more users migrated to adsl, vdsl and fibre. The Fibre has a 3500Gbyte "fair use" rolling 30 days. If you occasionally go over likely nothing happens. If you are making a copy of the Internet or selfhosting a popular site, then there are likely to be sanctions.
Mostly the 8/1 Mbyte package and the cap was fine, because none of us watched videos or subscribed to streaming.
I did download a free Steam Game at over 40Gbytes. It was under 10 minutes and could have been 30 days on dial-up. But how much can you download before running out of local storage?
I've considered downloading ALL of Gutenberg and having sync, feasible if you pick one format.
Multiple people in a shared dwelling with HD streaming subs would certainly need fibre.