It seems like you would benefit more from a better WiFi setup than WAN upgrade.

We moved to a 300/300 plan for $45 per month versus 500/40 @ $110. I noticed nothing different.

Yeah we have multiple devices, me with a large collection of PCs. But I’m not downloading stuff constantly. At most my GF is watching a show and on her phone while I play a game with friends online and using Discord.

1Gb fiber is optional, we can upgrade any time. But we save a bunch of money going with the 300 tier. Realizing now we would just be throwing money away for bragging rights.

I did discover Steam’s game sharing feature, so I can get games from one PC uploaded to another across my network. I don’t have a known data cap with the ISP, but this is something a friend has been happy to have with data caps. He’s planning to setup a steam game server, which is a whole separate project.

TL;DR go with gigabit fiber service if you absolutely need it or get a good discount. Otherwise it is probably a better deal with a lower tier.

I use it almost daily. Spent a lot of time uploading and downloading large files from work.

The applications that use that bandwidth most likely don’t exist yet. 5g and fiberglass are going to help us do things like self driving cars that need to exchange lots of data quickly with other cars in the neighborhood. Refrigerators that want to share data with your store. Robot cooks that need to download large models to perform their actions. Etc etc etc

The applications for this don’t exist yet, but once 5g is fully deployed that could move quite fast.

So no, you don’t need it now. But you might need it in 2-5years. It’ll also increase your download speed. So if it’s not to expensive why not.

Absolutely necessary. You might not make it to the end of the week without it.