I'm still trying to figure out what everyone is doing with these super fast plans. Netflix and porn will be the same on a 100 connection vs a gigabit connection.
As someone that works remotely, its really nice to have 60/30 OVER VPN when connected to work. We are 100% streaming (nothing over the air), so it's nice to know different TV's in the house can have 4-5 streams from different services going "no problem". Running a persistent site-to-site VPN that's now 30Mbps for
Blue Iris, you know important things! (I do acknowledge your point, since 4k streams are around 25Mbps each, so 100Mbps is still quite a bit to play with unless you only have 4k TVs and a bunch of roommates.)
I guess the main thing is I don't really think about WAN bandwidth anymore. When I had 25/6 everyone was stepping all over each other and data caps on top of that. During COVID when coworkers were pivoting to home offices they would join Zoom calls and go robot mode and have to run down and tell their kids to stop streaming so they can get through a work call. I remember, but don't experience those problems anymore. It's also very nice to be able to say, "No, pretty sure it's not MY internet connection that's causing the problem" regardless of the scenario.
It didn't hurt that it was $49.95/month. TBH coming from Comcrap I didn't understand why adoption was mid-50% when we joined, but now it has soared to over 90% of households have local municipal fiber. Comcast can't give away service here even offering discounts off $80/mo for 1200+Mbps. Doesn't keep them from spending a fortune fighting every new municipality trying to light their fiber with negative ad campaigns etc.
2013:
Comcast CEO says no one needs gigabit internet - I think he was almost right, no one wanted
their gigabit internet for
$300/month.
2021:
Comcast plans to offer 3Gb service nationwide although its 3000/3000 "if your location is located where they can provide it" and its estimated to cost $1000 install/equip + $300/month.