Any use case for 3gb speed?

Currently on Community Fibre 1 gb getting constant 940 speed and 0ms(wired) 2ms(wireless) pins, and recently 3 gb is available in my area, really want to get it, but can't make a use case to justify the additional monthly cost, what could be the use case for this apart from having the fastest home broadband in the country?

Possible use cases:

* You're running an office block with 500 workers?
* You're in the video content production industry and you have your own edit suite at home?
* You want to challenge yourself to build a LAN that's actually capable of filling 3Gbps with usable data?
* You believe in what Community Fibre are doing so much that you want an excuse to give them some more money?

It's a smart way for Community Fibre to increase their revenue for zero additional cost, because it's very unlikely that people's usage patterns would severely change going from 1Gbps to 3Gbps.

The people buying this would likely do it to post Speedtests on forums and then regret being in a 24 month contract at double the price of a 1Gbps service.

If you want it and can afford it (assuming it's your own money) why do you need a case?

In reply to a post by hanxu:

can't make a use case to justify the additional monthly cost,

Do you have fully wired systems with 10Gb Ethernet to make use of this?

None of above haha

It’s a good marketing ploy, a ‘halo’ product if you will. I don’t think there are any other residential ISPs offering a symmetric 3 Gbps service in the UK. I would hazard there would be very few takers, probably less than 5% of their subscribers, so no real threat to their overall network performance from oversubscription!

They also do a 10 Gbps service for business connections, which you’re no doubt aware of. The 3 year price for that is actually comparable to lot of 1G/1Gb leased connections.

All pales into insignificance when the Swiss ‘nerd’ ISP inet7 (their words) explain “How we inadvertently created the fastest residential internet access” at the most recent UKNOF virtual event.

25 Gbps symmetric ‘broadband’ - just weird in a particularly Swiss way!

I admire your honesty on this one - I would be the same. Zero justification, but just 'want'...

I am of the want what is available school, so I had an excessive 2GB connection - however I was offered a significant price cut if I went down to 1GB - so I downgraded - did I notice the diffrerence? - no (apart from the bank statement).
I think actually the connect was more reliable as it was not challenged so much.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

I would hazard there would be very few takers, probably less than 5% of their subscribers, so no real threat to their overall network performance from oversubscription!

I'd be surprised if it was more than 1 or 2%. I'm also of the 'want what is available' school, but 1Gbps is totally fine for me.