(February 6, 2019 at 5:07 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Is 1000Mbps noticeably faster than 100Mbps for the average user?
AT&T is offering 100Mbps service for $50 and 1000Mbps service for $90 (monthly). Ten times the speed for less than 200% of the 100Mbps service. But will a casual surfer and Prime Video junkie appreciate the fasterness?
There are two things that affect internet experience-- bandwidth and ping. Both of them are largely dependent on the site you're connecting to. Unless you're doing a point-to-point transfer with another power user, the most I've seen on sites was about 12 megabytes (96 megabits) / second. If you're just surfing the web. . . I think it's very highly unlikely that the difference will matter.
Another thing is that you need a good computer. If you actually try to download at 125MB / second, then you will be lucky indeed if your computer will even be able to feed that data to your hard drive EVEN IF the site can handle it.
That being said, computer technology overall changes faster than internet speeds do. It's perfectly possible that a lot of video sites will be serving UHD over the net, and that you'll really wish you had that faster connection. Also-- just because a service is RATED at 100mbps doesn't mean you'll actually see that at the endpoint-- you might end up with downloads of like 3 Megabytes / second, which will be limiting pretty fast. I'd advise if you can afford it, go for it!
In Korea, however, I can sometimes download files at like 500mpbs, which means a full DVD file in just a few seconds. Also, I have a Microsoft Azure site, and I transfer very large files to and from it, and I can feel that extra bandwidth. It gives me a bit of a hardon, to be honest.
