We have Google installing fiber in my town right now. I still get Verizon sales reps coming to my door asking me to switch off of Xfinity. Dude...
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...and here I am enjoying a nice and steady 300 mbps, thinking: "Why on earth I'd want to improve it to almost 20 times more, when its already fast enough to load most content in less than a fraction of a second?".
I got unlimited, synchronous 1 Gbps a year ago and I agree that for day-to-day applications it's not much different from the 250 Mbps I was getting from Comcast. There a few noteworthy exceptions for me: (1) It's much easier to maintain a good torrent ratio (2) Large backups, like system images, to the cloud are much more feasible now. (3) Comcast limited me to 1.2 Tb a month which sounds like a lot until you realize how quickly you can kill that downloading modern games.
In general I think less about my internet service now. It's not at all life changing but it's nice.
I'm content with 100MBPS myself. It's fast enough to load sites nigh instantaneously. I don't have a lot of hiccups. It downloads things reasonably well.
I would rather be on 100MBPS than the times where, I wasn't. Like I remember dial-up, 33kbps. I remember shitty ass DSL 768kbps. I remember local "broadband" of 1 ~ 5MB.
If I got anything less than 100MBPS, then I'd be discontented. The only way I'd be even more content is probably being on your level or 250MBPS at least. Why would I need gigabit connectivity? It sounds like something I'd need, if I was like a business or having multiple people around. I'm only one person though.