Internet speed, 2015

[JuliaL]

I can get true gigabit internet in Korea, but it's a lot extra (triple my current, which is about half Gb/s).  But I'm half tempted to do it just so I can post my speeds in this thread for all you bitches.

Am I too shallow a person?

Not so much shallow, but your internet speed is largely pointless.
As you mentioned recently:

Divide speeds by 8 to get megabytes. So you can download atmost about 7.5 megabytes / second, which should be fast enough for almost anything you need to do.

Gigabit communication has only very occasional utility for individuals.
It is overkill for realtime video which (if I remember my calcs recently) your service can concurrently download and display 40 HD (compressed) video programs simultaneously.  How many people do you have watching at any time?
It's been mentioned on this thread that such comm lets you use the cloud as an extended hard drive.
I don't trust my data out of my house.  Watch the John Oliver interview of Edward Snowden.  It's not that I'm a privacy activist, but it's pretty clear that data can be misused by unfriendlies-- see identity theft or employer scrapes of facebook.

Or maybe I'm just bitter.
After all, I come from a time when microcomputer storage was in the low kilobytes (Intel 4004) and efficiency was important.
Moore's law has made bloat of all sorts acceptable.