Donno about 1Gbps but am struggling with 10 mbps
Was very excited to get the 10 mbps connection, now there is nothing to do.
Backed up 12+ GB of songs in
google music. Downloaded so many movies.
What else should I do?
Even I'm in a similar
boat - and this is EXACTLY what we anticipate will happen after the novelty of super high speed has worn off.
Strange you should be bored already. Just to clarify, I hope you are downloading DVDs (not rips) or BRRips of 10Gigs and above for your movies. It is a waste of bandwidth otherwise. And listen to songs in FLAC format, not mp3. Watch Youtube only if there is a 1080p
If he's on a standard PC or
laptop, there's no point in downloading a BR Rip - it just takes extra time to download and way more hard drive space for no real benefit. If he's watching on a 52" FULL HD LED
TV with 7.1 surround sound, then yeah, that's worth doing.
Same goes for FLAC - if he has a professional audio system, then great. If he's listening through a pair of 500 rupee
headphones from a phone or ipod, there's no point.
And you know what? Most people do not have this kind of hardware, so advising them to download like this is a little bit stupid and irresponsible: you may think he has the bandwidth to warrant downloading this BUT there are two things:
[*]With broadband being a shared resource actually makes the whole experience worse for everybody (and costs the providers more in bandwidth and caching, causing them to implement all the stuff we hate like throttling/shaping and FUPs that stop at 25GB).
[*]10Mbit/s isn't really anything spectacular and IMO isn't really suitable for "upgrading" to the BR versions: he's paying maybe US$40 tops for his connection which suggests that he probably doesn't have all the hardware mentioned above - if he were spending the equivalent of US$120+ on the connection every month, then yeah, he would be more likely to have all that equipment and as such would warrant downloading these files.
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From what I have seen, the largest percentage of people are on the bottom 2 plans offered by an ISP (this was confirmed in a recent meeting with a company that sells and implements P2P caching technology).
Why do you think our plans & pricing are the way they are, and why I'm always advocating the "fairs fair" policy we have - as in, "if you think you're going to download content in this manner, don't go for the lowest plan"... I've spent countless hours pouring over numbers and working out how to make ours work, and while the "limits" on our plans are pretty generous, we're not really expecting most people on those plans to hit them.
Moreover, in order for any price reduction to happen in future, it's more or less imperative that these limits are not reached (and realistically, the same goes for ALL ISPs).
there is definitely a quality difference between 128 and 320 though. if u download 
as for data whoring everyone hits a dead end one day , 24 tb on