Forget about the price. I don't even understand any practical application of the 2 Gb Internet at home at all. Well, I can see it being used for companies with hundreds of computers, where you need a high bandwidth pipe so it could be shared by many users. But how would you use it at home?
First of all, how would you even connect to it? All home network routers and Ethernet adapters in our computers are still limited to 1Gb. You would need to upgrade all your network devices to NBASE-T or something, which is not widely available yet.
And even if you do upgrade all your equipment to NBASE-T, what can you practically use this speed for? Even for the most demanding 4K video streaming you would only need a small fraction of that speed. There are probably very few websites (if any at all) that can take advantage of such high speed.
Its just another way to separate fools from their money.
You would never use even a small fraction at home. I laugh when people tell me they have 150 or 200Mb at home.
I ask them what their utilization percentage, and they look like deer in headlights. Simple to setup PRTG or something else and SNMP poll your router, to see how much you are actually not using.
I guess they think the more capacity they have, the faster their surfing will be, simply not true if your not maxing out. And with few computers and simple household use, they are not maxing out.
I run 700+ computers and about 10 servers on a burstable 50Mb Ethernet over Fiber Internet circuit. Planning on upgrading to 100 Mb, not in a hurry because I don't max out very often at 50Mb.
These circuits aren't cheap but I have 4 public class C's, BGP AS # assigned to it, and an SLA.
Being residential I doubt you will get any of those features on the 2 Gb circuit in this post, and as far as an SLA, they fix it when they get around to it if it breaks. "We will be there from 8AM to 8PM next Friday" HA, forget it.
