Absurdly fast internetconnection - Why the hell for?

[Strazdas]

100 mbps is not absurdly high. its the standard in all countries that have decent internet (and no america is NOT one of them).
absurd internet would be 1000 mbps, because most modems cant handle that anyway.
i need my 300mbps line for: donwloadable games, downloadable videos, streaming of HD videos, possibly will need in future for streaming of games, hosting my own website and many other things. there is usually over 100gb of traffic going though my line monthly.
not to mention that fiberoptics have significantly lower pings. my average ping is 17-40 ms.

Sure, this I know, but it just brings me back to the original "what kind of average person would warrant this upgrade in infrastructure?".
But perhaps cloud-computing will kick-through.

one that wasnt living in a cave for the past 5 years perhaps.

 

[T3hSource]

I've always had a 100Mbit connection and I'm not complaining.
Also I thought that 100Mbit was the standard in Sweden OP.

 

[lapan]

im sat here with 5 down thinking why not have super fast internet? download a whole game or movie in minutes not hours yes please, the more power the more better. (when i downloaded cod 4 onto my xbox it took 3 days becuse my internet is so bad not only did it download slowly but the download frequently failed)

also there thinking of the future, now 25bit will do but in the future (probably very soon considering the huge growth in web traffic that's happening) it will become unusable, so there upgrading

How often do the average, non-gamer download (legally) an entire movie or a game?
You have to start realizing that we are a minority.

And even as a gamer, I rarely use the Steam-download anyway, and when I do, I feel that 40min downloading an entire game is acceptable.

More and more often, as many developers are switching to DD plattforms like steam.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Wow grandad you certainly came to the right forum with this, you actually remind me of my dad who thinks doctors and medical research is useless because he is in full health and if everyone just followed his example we wouldn't need any of it...

All I can say is just because you don't know what the wheel is for doesn't mean everyone needs to stay in the stone age.

 

[Madman123456]

Running a dedicated server comes to mind. Failing that when some Companies don't want to sell us Games anymore, People could get together in Virtual LANs. Company turned off the Servers for your Game? Go play it on the Internet in a Virtual Lan.

Move large Files around like Videos. If you upload stuff to youtube with a decent resolution, you will appreciate a fast connection speed.

 

[Something Amyss]

Once again, where I live.

Which is probably wrong even where you live.

But it's especially wrong outside that context.