Next question - Anyone have some experience between 300Mbps vs Gigabit Fibre? Any noticeable difference? It's just the two of us (though we have some family coming over over xmas), so I don't think we generate that much traffic.

[–] Dave 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We had gigabit for a while when I got a sweet deal but went back to 300Mbps when that ended as we didn't really notice the difference in everyday usage.

[–] NoRamyunForYou 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good to hear :)

Having that 1000 speed sounds sexy, but in reality, not too sure we would benefit from it at this point.

[–] Dave 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it depends on how you use it. Maybe if you're big on torrent seeding it might get used, but other than downloading a game on Steam it hardly mattered. And even then, the download would regularly pause waiting for it to write to disk because even with SSDs they couldn't write to disk as fast as it was downloading. I think maybe it makes more sense for large households where many people will be using it at once.

[–] NoRamyunForYou 2 points 1 year ago

We don't really find ourselves downloading much of anything - mostly just games for the partner. Everything else seems to be streamed these days. I might revisit at a later date if our habits change 👍

[–] RecallMadness 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think I use it often. But for an extra $10/month. But I think it means when I’m downloading something at 30Mb/s (ie just under 300mbit) I don’t notice it.

[–] NoRamyunForYou 2 points 1 year ago

Good point - not much increased cost tbh. I'll see how we get on, and see if our usage patterns have changed. Previously, we never really felt any limitations with 300Mbps fiber.