1 Gbps symmetrical FTTH here. I never need to prepare anything or think about bandwidth.<p>Want to boot a Linux distribution from a USB memory stick? Don’t wait 15 minutes for the download to finish, just wget to your USB memory stick directly.<p>Want to download that embedded toolkit? No more finding a different task until that multi-gigabytes download is done. Just start it, wait a couple of seconds, continue.<p>Going over to a friend’s house? No more asking what movie we might want to watch beforehand and copying it onto my laptop. Just mount my workstation via sshfs and play it.<p>When I used to live at my parent’s house, occasionally some family member would ask “who’s uploading something? I can barely browse the web”. This just doesn’t happen when you have more than enough bandwidth.<p>To me, it’s like a flatrate for bandwidth. You just never need to worry about it.