said by Anon47efd :I honestly doubt that these "hard core gamers" are maxing out their gig connections. They might think they are, but they are probably just hitting other bottlenecks. Gaming doesn't use much bandwidth at all ( 20Mbps) unless downloading games or game updates. If they are streaming, that will use some upload bandwidth, but not more than ~10Mpbs most likely, and that is upload bandwidth. If you add in some voice chats, other streams, etc. you are probably looking at under 100Mbps downstream bandwidth utilized for a "hard core gamer" when not doing things like downloading/uploading games, updates, pre-recorded streams.
I have heard a few of the gaming services like Steam have no problem maxing out a Gig connection, so I wouldn't be surprised. In this day and age who cares, it's available, if they're willing to pay for it do as they please.
said by Anon47efd :If they are doing these bandwidth-intensive activities and multiple people are doing these activities at once, they could saturate their connection, but that could be resolved with QoS if desired.
QoS does not magically provide you with more downstream capacity.
said by Anon47efd :I've yet to meet a web developer complaining of 900Mbps upstream bandwidth. Usually it is the remote server that bottlenecks them.
Not on a symmetrical Gig connection, but web developers and many other end users are on cable / DSL and non symmetrical FTTH connections.
