At home you are free to make everything 10G-capable, have a NAS that can saturate such a link, etc.

On the wider internet, few resources are happy to dedicate such bandwidth to you, even if you can consume it. Not even every popular torrent can muster so much incoming bandwidth.

I can see how it may make sense if you run a popular public server from your home; maybe more convenient than colocation, but still is not a typical use case.

I feel the same. I am an übergeek, but I see no reason to pay for more than 100Mbit/sec, but 1Gbit and (soon'ish) 10Gbit will be available. Where I live, 100Mbit/sec is laughably cheap. I get a sales call once per month: "100Mit/sec is so slow! Would you like a upgrade?" I have no use for it. That said, I view myself as the exception to the rule. Please don't read this post as "1Gbit+ is useless" -- only that I don't have a use.

Real question: If you are an Internet gamer, I assume that latency per packet is lower for 1Gbit+ connections, so it is useful for many customers.

More: I feel the same about monitor resolutions above 4K. Anything above 4K on a 27inch monitor makes no sense for my body size / sitting height. I cannot use a vertical monitor taller than 27inch, and above 4K is too small for my aging eyesight! Again: I am sure there are many interesting applications for 4K+ and 27inch+. I hereby wish good luck to all the whippersnappers who will prove me wrong with interesting applications of 4K+ and 27inch+!

Also, even at colocation providers, 10 Gigabits committed rate is going to be a bit pricy.

You can look at it as too much for anyone's needs, or you can see it as enabling tomorrow's applications. Looking back, or looking forward.

Back in the dialup days, nobody in their right mind would run a torrent, or play online shooters, or watch streaming HD video -- such things were utterly impractical over ultra slow links with very high latency. Once people started getting broadband, these applications started appearing.

Of course we need faster links into people's homes. Of course under-1Gbit links into homes in 2022 are ridiculous.

> Not even every popular torrent can muster so much incoming bandwidth.

So? The process of wringing out the bottlenecks is to eliminate the ones you can, and be mad about the ones you can't.

I have 1Gbit Virgin in the U.K. and that speed us still very rare here. Any faster and I’m going to have to be searching for a better USB NIC in order to actually utilise anything. Most consumer hardware seems to still be 1000baseT so how would you utilise anything more than a gigabit connection unless you have 10+devices all working at maximum capacity? Also I rarely max it downloading anything at all, is there some sort of special internet somewhere that you can download stuff at 10Gbps?

Finally, can your SSD even keep up with speeds like this?

**Oh and I thought I’d note, it is the positive use of “insane” like “mad good”.

> Finally, can your SSD even keep up with speeds like this?

COTS nvme SSD can easily do 1GB/s which easily maxes out non-optimized 10Gbit due to overhead alone. Burst that is for write, but you get the idea.

> I literally laugh at providers attempting to convince me to get whatever with 10 or 20Mbit uplink speeds, in 2022l Yes, they exist.

Meanwhile here in Silicon Valley, the fastest connection I can get at home (sonic.net) is 22Mbps/1.7Mbps. In the office I have Comcast Business which is a bit faster (don't recall exactly) but certainly well below 100Mbps.

So yes 1Gbps sounds quite insane. 10Gbps is out of this universe.

I have 100up/50down (mbps, not giga) at home, and its the fastest I can afford. If money is not a concern then it can go up to 1gb, but not in my area yet. I can barely saturate my line unless I'm donwloading something big.

10gig is insane.