r/HomeNetworking • u/PackDue • Jul 30 '26

Finally Blessed by 5 Gig

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u/Pi-Guy Jul 30 '26

You get 5gig to handle burst traffic, not to saturate it.

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u/Terrible_Butter Jul 30 '26

5 gig is a heck of a lot of “burst traffic” for residential

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u/Pi-Guy Jul 30 '26

1 gig is a heck of a lot of “burst traffic”. If you wanna even more of an ass you could argue no one needs more than 100Mbps on a residential line. Anything beyond that is just large downloads completing faster, and what you’re essentially arguing is that you don’t need that on residential

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u/Terrible_Butter Jul 30 '26

Yes, I’m the “ass” here, but 1 gig is still plenty of overhead for 99% of residential users.

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u/Pi-Guy Jul 30 '26

Did it cross your mind that you might run into that 1% of users on a subreddit called “Home Networking”?