re: Lafayette, LA may have the best ISP in the nation.....

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You should. Huge upside for only $15. If you stream, game or torrent, it would make life sweet.

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Not really.

At this point in time, torrenting would be the only thing the average user would sincerely notice a difference on unless you have a lot of household members that are simultaneously streaming, gaming, torrenting, etc. That kind of bandwidth is wholly unnecessary in the vast majority of the nation's households right now. But don't mistake that for a negative attitude, I would love to have a symmetrical gig link for that price and I think it's great for consumers and will force other ISPs to move forward with better services and to upgrade their infrastructures to support higher bandwidth links to customers.

Also, having the infrastructure to support gig links all the way to residential homes, and doing it for so cheap, is an impressive feat and should serve residential bandwidth needs for many years to come.