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Is it for real?

I live in a rural city of France and I pay €24 a month for 400Mbps (upload: 200Mbps).

Same here, small town in France, I get 5 Gbps downstream and 700 Mbps upstream for less than 30 euros (35 USD).

So what use is that 5gbps? Do you run multiple machines? Do you use 10gb NICs? Or is this just simply what your ISP offers? I’m curious what people beyond 1gbps are using their extra speed for.

I'd personally use it for remote backups. I guess this is with Free (illiad). They also offer 10G-EPON (8Gbps) with their "Freebox Delta" router with at least one SFP+ port.

Yes it's real! In rural cities in the USA many people only have 1-2mbps speeds still!

My family in rural areas are waiting and hoping for 5G internet to save them, but I live in a rather hilly region and many are worried their homes won't get good 5G service!

I think this is why starlink will sell well.

Rural users are sick of slow speeds, and in low density areas there should be enough bandwidth for starlink to work well.

Dont know how starlink would handle a city-full of users; Think that is something we are looking forward to finding out.

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