Dish or DirecTV

[Evan]

Yeah gig is pointless,  especially if you know how the internet works.   100 is plenty,  and I was happy with 50.

Lee just switch to DTV Now for $10/mo more.   I did a trial of sling and the channel selection was awful.   Much happier on DTVN

Cool,  I dont, thanks for explaining more than "if you know". 

Our other provider we tried got "laggy" and was slow.  I have 0 knowledge of what is fast or not and for $10 a month I wanted to absolutely positively have a good connection since we both work. After asking our neighbors, all suggested the Gigabit after the experience with the other provider.  Luckily CAT5 is run through our house already so no PITA getting it setup. (want hardwire for Iracing/4k streaming in our movie room and living room).  I am sure a decent wireless will handle most our work needs but our offices do have the hard points.

my comment was responding to Lee that you dont need to pay extra for gigabit.
in short, you dont need gigabit/s bandwidth because its more than you can use, and more than the other end of your connection will provide. For reference a 4k UHD Netflix stream is around 25 mb/s. (thats 25 out of 1000). So unless you're backing up the internet's library of scat pron, its just more than you will ever use. ( And there are LAN bottlenecks that keep you from using all of that gigabit too)

What chris is talking about, latency, is in fact very important to the 'snappy' feel of your internet, but this is fixed for your provider and not connected to bandwidth. The infrastructure (fiber, cable, dsl, etc) makes the most difference. Fiber is the best here, so its a great reason to go with fiber.

Personally Ive had fios since the day the turned it on in my area, and despite being a power user I always get the cheapest plan. I started on 10mb/s years ago and am now at 100mb/s. (with the same single digit latency)

So yeah, if you are paying extra for gigabit, Id recommend you save some money and drop it down a tier or two. And if fiber is available, go with that.