I've noticed trends of faster and faster Internet speeds. Not usually where I live, but yes, there's a voice inside me that yells "more fasterer! Better! Better!"

Now, I know there are some people with big bandwidth requirements -- those doing some major file sharing, or maybe needing a big pipe for a VPN to work. But I think that in the commercial marketplace, that's a small percentage.

I thought about this recently when a friend of mine was looking at his options for getting Internet services. He opted for the cable modem at 25 Mbps because it was faster than the DSL offering at 12Mbps, which is what I have. And I thought about it, knowing what he'll do online... surf the web, stream some audio, watch Netflix once in a while -- and even for that, 12 is overkill, let alone 25.

I know that the providers have to have significant bandwidth in their infrastructure, but I feel that consumer offerings of 25, 30, 50 Mbps and more are really just selling people the idea of a super fast connection that they'll really never use. CMV.

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