Hi all I have decided that it is too complicated for me I was hoping for something a lot easier that my old brain could cope with so thank you all for trying to help me
In which case the best thing is to find someone locally to look at your setup.
Iāve never understood this obsession with massive speeds.
How many people actually need these sort of speeds?
Surely reliability is more important than ultimate speed?
ETA: Iāve just run a speed test, and Iām getting 200.6 download, with a latency of 8ms, which is plenty fast enough for Netflix, Youtube, etc.
It depends.
For most peopleās day to day activities probably not but there are times that it is handy.
I use a VPN to access work- that includes accessing files on shared drives and a fast, low latency link is definitely better.
Ditto accessing work via Citrix as I have a few apps I need to use where the UI becomes very tedious on a slower link
If you are a gamer updates can easily be over 100GB - a fast link is the difference between waiting several hours for a download vs a few minutes.
Finally - it is much more common for several family members to be using the 'net at the same time, watching videos etc. Although you donāt need a hugely fast link for that it is easier if you do.
Very few, its a marketing gimmick.
Iāve just Googled āhow long to download 100MB on a 200mbps connection?ā:-
Downloading 100MB on a 200 Mbps connection should take approximately 30 seconds. A 200 Mbps connection translates to roughly 25 MBps (Megabytes per second), so 100MB divided by 25 MBps equals 4 seconds. However, real-world download speeds are often lower due to various factors, so itās more realistic to expect around 30 seconds.
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Oops, typo - 100GB. I think the largest update my son needed to download on his X-Box was 130GB. I have no doubt they are larger these days as that was a few years ago.
At 50Mbps - 100GB = 4-5 hours
At 500Mbps 30 mins
At 1Gbps 15 mins
Yes but 200Mbps is already ultrafast.
You should compare with real world xDSL speeds (say 50Mbps, though many donāt get that).
If your question is āis 1Gbps a worthwhile upgrade to 200Mbpsā the answer is āprobably not, whatās your use case?ā.
If your question is āis 500Mbps/1Gbps a worthwhile upgrade to 50Mbpsā the answer is āprobably yes, but how much time do you spend doing big downloadsā
If your question is āis 500Mbps/1Gbps a worthwhile upgrade to 5Mbpsā the answer is āyesā
So it would take me about 1 hour?
I donāt think thatās an excessive amount of time. I could just leave it downloading, while I prepare and eat my evening meal.
BTW, how often does he need to download these updates?
So Iām getting ultrafast, on a Mobile BB router?
Thatās interesting and 
Frequently enough that 50Mbps was a pain. Heās at Uni now and has 500Mbps as I do (in the UK) since we had fibre.
You must have 5G and be almost sitting on the celltower 
Chez moi I get 20-40Mbps out of 4G.
Weāve got fibre - download 930, upload 800mbps. That said Netflix on our TV sometimes buffers as itās opening up and occasionally loses sound and has to be restarted. Not a problem. I think itās Netflix, not anything we are doing.
Pretty much.
It varies a bit, but I canāt rember the last time it was below 100 mbps.
Pretty much. 
It varies a bit, but I canāt remember the last time it was below 100 mbps.
Same here, but I think that might be due to it being connected by Wi-Fi.
It doesnāt buffer on my Ethernet connected PC.
We have home network plugs
Cynic
Over the years Iāve gradually moved from technology to technology from 64k ISDN, to ADSL, VDSL and fibre. Each has made a fairly significant improvement in the overall experience of being online.
OK, maybe the upgrade from 50Mbps VDSl to 500Mbps fibre did not make me 10x happier but having far too many computers which need upgrades it made a significant improvement. Also upload went from 10 to 500 which makes a massive difference for backups.
Would 1Gbps be worth it over 500 - personally I donāt think so.
When we had copper speed was around 35mbs, occasional buffering. Not being a gamer or heavy user it was just film watching that had an occasional delay. Now on full fibre at 210mbs but looking to see if they can supply a slower cheaper option. Maybe half that speed.
It is when itās accompanied by a price drop, as SOSH has just done. 
I have the slowest of the slow internet connections at about 2Mbps as itās copper and I am at the end of the line. It does however do all I need to do which really surprises me. I used to get some buffering when watching YouTube on my smart TV but since I hardwired that to the Livebox itās been really good. Orange keep telling me that fibre is available in my commune but it is still not available at my address. Thereās a box beside the road about a km away which went in when the fibre arrived years ago but itās still not ventured down the hill in my direction. My commune has a tiny population but a huge surface area. When the fibre does become available I will upgrade but to be honest Iām nowhere near as excited about it now as I was when its arrival was first announce.
Thatās interesting - does France have anything similar to BTās āUniversal Service Obligationā - which is a minimum of 10Mbps
Mind you if BT have to pay more than Ā£3400 to get that speed to you, youāll end up footing the bill so insisting they give you 10Mbps can come with a sting in the tail.
But, yes, 2Mbps will do for day to day browsing, email etc and most of the large content providers will automatically adjust video resolution and quality to fit into the available bandwidth.