It has absolutely nothing to do with ego's at all. Anyone who streams or uploads files, such as sending videos to family and friends who are no longer in England it's rather important.
It's also idiotic when most of Europe is on a 1:1 Down/Up speed. My parents who now live in France in an old cottage in the middle of absolutely nowhere can get 4gig both ways, 1gig both ways or 500mbit both ways.
This is why the Altnets do the same. Also the car anology is incredibly poor, Comparing a vehicle that has speed limits by Law vs the Internet that does.
What it does is make file, video and photo sharing much quicker, and again as I said the US and EU and Asia all mostly* have symetrical speeds. Poland has had 1gig up and down for over 10 years.
It's worth noting my ex who's in an AltNet area now has the option for 7000mbit which is also 7000mbit upload.
It's also about perspective and what you do. 900mbit for me is already weak sauce in terms of speed, Virgin Media here is perma 1150mbit ,but I prefer upload speed and PlusNet offers 10mbit up more than Virgin does on Gig1. So there in itself your entire arguement is utterly wrong because I'm moving from a faster download for a quicker upload.
So don't comment about stroking Egos insinuating things about people you know nothing about, or their usage. Or for the internet for that matter. I'm not quite sure how you made it to "superuser" status being so aggresive on a Forum.... Talk about stroking egos' indeed.
