Unfortunately this is not true in my case. Most of my mornings start with needing to pull down a few 20-30GB OS installers and source trees and no work can happen until I have the latest daily builds installed. 400mbit vs 950mbit literally makes the difference between whether or not I can start working at all before lunch time. The rest of the day, as you mentioned, indeed involves the network link having almost 0% utilization. But with that said, that's fairly typical for home users. We need fat pipes mainly because once in a while we need a large download, and we want those to finish quickly. That's very different from something like a VPN concentrator or L3 gateway for a corporation where the reason why you need something like gigabit is simply because the aggregate total of a thousand users consuming 1mbit is 1gbit. But yeah, for myself, I have hard evidence and reasons why a gateway that cannot get close to 1000mbit symmetric is a major impact that I'm willing to pay money to solve. BTW I'm a systems engineer myself, I design and size compute power all day long. I totally understand it is a difficult ask from Meraki to make affordable hardware that can achieve this kind of throughput. However, licensing is a different story -- it would be great to differentiate between my kind of use case vs a corporation, even if both have specific requirements that necessitate 1gbit throughput.
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