Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …
  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    This whole blog post is moronic, if you don’t need it, buy a smaller package.
    For me the extra price is peanuts, and it’s absolutely amazing to be able to play a new game minutes after I bought it instead of hours.

    Before we moved we didn’t have fiber, and downloading a game could take so long that I would have to wait until the next day to play it after starting to install it.

    This also means that I can uninstall games I don’t use without worrying if I might want to play it later, this spares me from needing massive storage.

    I also prefer to preload media to watch on our media center/TV, and it’s nice to be able to have a movie ready in a matter of a couple of minutes.