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I can't imagine ANY reason that a private household would actually need a 10G or 25G connection unless it's doubling as a workplace and they're hosting servers. Even that seems like a temporary stop-gap situation, get some rackspace in a datacenter already!

Maybe they're not selling enough 25G to their business customers and they're trying to get private users onto 25G?

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I can see that. Certainly if they already have the infrastructure deployed then a residential usage pattern on 10G is going to look identical to that on 1G (and I’d wager identical to that on 100M in most cases). In which case they can get more recurring revenue for likely only an increased one-off cost.

When I clicked through to the provider it looked like the only difference between 1/10/25G was the setup cost. But I might have mis-read.

For download?

Working from home with large media assets of any sort.

For upload? Yes, I need ANYTHING faster than Comcast's BS so I can actually do any work OR even backups without killing my ability to do other things.

Right, that's totally reasonable, it sounds like you need an SLA (service level agreement) from you ISP, like a business-class service at 1G up/down.

Bu can you really make use of 25G or 10G service to the point where 1G is unacceptably slow? Probably not. It would strongly depend on the bandwidth of whatever you're connecting to.

As a deluxe nice-to-have with bragging rights, sure, but it won't make an operational difference except in very specific scenarios that almost no household would actually need.

Init7,OP’s isp is a non profit

No, they are a regular for profit company.

Regardless, their monthly (annual actually) fees are the same for 25G/25G as for 1G/1G. Only the setup fees are higher, which they attribute to more expensive optics. 10G/10G is completely identically priced to 1G/1G.

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