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Written in Switzerland from my 25GBps symmetric connection (for like 60$/month) that I have for a couple of years π€·ββοΈ
Also for personal use the difference between 1Gbps and 25 (or, I guess, 100GBps) is essentially zero⦠your everyday connection is via WiFi (good luck to get more than 1GBps there) or on a home server/NAS/workstation where likely you run batch jobs where the difference between 1 minute or 5 minutes is not a huge deal (and yes I am not saying 1 vs 25 because at that speed generally the bottleneck is the place where you are getting data from)
I have a 40Mbps down, 5Mbps up connection for $30. Consider yourself as real lucky.
I do π