What is the practical consumer (or even SME) use of a 10 or 25G connection?

As a consumer I’d definitely get it for the fun of it, but what is the point in reality?

We’ve just launched an ISP a couple of weeks ago here in Europe. Peak bandwidth use is about 3mbps per customer, and customers will download the same amount of data regardless of their plan.

I acknowledge this could be lack of imagination on my part, but the progression of bandwidth availability seems to be wildly outstripping demand (at least when it comes to fibre deployments).

Perhaps someone living in SF with a 25G connection can disabuse me of this notion.

baybal2

> What is the practical consumer (or even SME) use of a 10 or 25G connection?

Remote file storage, leasing servers for things like icecream, or basic HPC, self-hosting for a small business, even a small DC can run off it.

lbotos

is this the icecream you speak of? https://github.com/icecc/icecream I've never heard of it so I was intrigued.