Posted April 15, 2024
Yesterday I learned that the basic internet connection in this house has been bumped up from 10Mbit/s to 25Mbit/s. It doesn't cost any extra so I'd save 25€/month with it.
Now I am contemplating whether I could live with that 25Mbit/s connection. It would be weird in a sense that my phone has max 100Mbit/s speed (doesn't cost me anything, my employer pays for it), while my wife's phone has a max (I think) 300Mbit/s connection (5G; we never get even close that fast as I don't think we are in the area of 5G, 4G here). So I would get a considerably faster internet then if I was tethering the mobile data to the household, instead of using the 25Mbit/s wifi router.
I used to have that 10Mbit/s connection for many many years and I was relatively happy with it, but game sizes have certainly grown since then and downloading something like Cyberpunk or Baldur's Gate 3 would probably be awful with one, always having to wait a night or a day or two to download some big game...
I dunno, I feel I am partly paying for nothing right now since I only occasionally need that high speed, and rarely if ever I am maxing that out anyway (I think I get max 300-400Mbit download speeds from pretty much anywhere). Speedtest.net just ranked my internet connection as having 571 Mbit/s DL speed and 97 Mbit/s UL speed, so at least my ISP is not lying to me apparently...
I wonder if it is possible to throttle the overall speed to 25Mbit/s on the router, that way simulating the experience of being knocked down to 25Mbit/s basic speed?
Maximum speed used not to be the main issue but the amount of contention (i.e. people who would share the same connection)
I've always paid for internet (in the days of dialup, far far too much at times)
Part of me thinks that discounted internet is the precursor to the non-free internet.
If it's cheap and no limits then that's ok.
