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Originally Posted by rsmurano
I would never get lower than 1G speeds. I’m paying $39 a month for 1G speed. If I could get fiber 2G for $95 a month, I would jump on it.
Cable networks suck for pure bandwidth. I get 1G down but only 30-40Mb upload. When you get fiber, you get the same speed for uploads and downloads.
If somebody wants to backup a 4TB dive to the cloud and you had a 200Mb download speed and you probably get 10-20Mb upload speeds, it would take you months to backup your disk, plus anybody else in your house uploading or sending somebody a file, it would take hours or longer to do this. I take advantage of technology, plus I hate buffering or waiting for something to start, so the faster speeds help with this and fiber has an ultra low latency compared to copper networks.
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For anyone that has a 4TB drive, is paying for more than 4TB of cloud storage, and wants to copy that 4TB drive to their storage, perhaps 1Gbps or 2Gbps makes sense. For those of us streaming Netflix at 4K while reading emails, commenting on ToTV, listening to Pandora, and monitoring our Ring camera, 200Mbps is more than adequate.
That said, if I was going to pay $35 regardless of whether I received 200Mbps or 1Gbps, I might just as well get the 1Gbps.