which is silly unless you are constantly downloading large files and even then the connection is only as fast as the connection of the computer you are connected to.

I have a ton of customers who pay for gigabit internet who do nothing more than email and web surf.

I have a little metaphor I use with them and it goes like this.

The internet is sort of like a highway. No matter how many cars are on the freeway the speed limit is always the same. When you have a lot of cars the traffic slows down even though the speed limit is still 65. The only way to bring the speed back up to the limit is to add more lanes so there is less congestion. The internet is kind of the same. What you do on the internet dictates the traffic. The more data you are trying to pull the more lanes you need but adding lanes does not add speed it only reduces congestion. So basically what they are doing is buying a 4 lane highway to drive a prius down all by themselves. Yup big files will come down faster but the vast majority of the time you are driving that little prius all by yourself on your big ass highway. you arent increasing the speed limit only the amount of lanes that can travel at that speed limit.

Anything over 25 megs for most folks is overkill, and 25 megs would be overkill if not for streaming video. The ideal situation is to figure out how much you need and pad it a bit to account for "rush hour"

and saves them some money.