“Fast” only works up to a point for home use.
My cable went from 20 to 50 Mpbs a couple of years ago. For most things, that is hardly noticeable. A movie or TV show stream will only download and play at a certain speed, regardless of how much ‘broadband’ one has.
Cumbersome webpages still load slow. One of the worst culprits is Amazon.com. It loads dozens of things and takes a minute or two to finish all of them, even at 50 Mbps.
Many webpages I can click on load almost instantly. So, how much faster is ‘fast’?
It is a selling point. A bigger factor is the lag/latency and that is the responsibility/fault of the provider, be it cable or phone.
At 5 Mbs, I can watch streaming videos on my desktop PC without interruption.
You don’t need the fastest speed to access Internet content.
Try weather.com! Ridiculously slow.
My Amazon pages load in a second or three on 3 Mbit DSL. Setting else going on.
Even with fast broadband such as you describe, you can only download as fast as your computer can absorb it. And for websites like Amazon, or video sites,again, it’s only as fast as your computer can absorb and display it.
One thing that does help is a little program called Ublock Origin. I use a lot of the filters available, and their hosts file and it’s made a huge difference in how quickly my dinosaur laptop can take care of what comes in. The program is a browser add-on. Also, I don’t use windoze and that’s a big help too.
A script blocker can be trained to block the extraneous extras slowing the web page download, and allow what is needed for the page.
In fairness that’s not necessarily due to network latency. The servers take time to generate the content as well. So some sites will seem slow while others are fast. As far as movies go, yes streaming will not necessarily improve, however if you download movies (for that 3 hour wait in the security line at the airport) it will go much faster.