I remember me and my brother getting excited when torrent speeds used to touch 200 kbps. Good days.

You can download an entire album in minutes, that's crazy fast!

Are you in London? My 1Gbps link gives 800-900Mbps in these speed tests, and I'm fine with that. It's a pitty that some of that is unused because I need to use a VPN.

When I lived in a small town, my 500Mbps would give me >400Mbps consistently.

That 800-900Mbps doesn't include the bits needed for IP packet headers, does it?

I'm not sure. All I can say is that speedtest.net and fast.com both show 800/ 900 Mbps for download/upload.

MK area. I wish we had gigabit speeds available.

Googling says there's CityFibre and Giganet in the MK area. Did they skip your house? A fibre company skipped my street in London.

Never heard of the two frankly. Thanks for sharing.

Where are you in the UK that you can get 300 but not gigabit? AIUI, you’ve either got Openreach FTTC (caps out at 80mbps), Openreach FTTH (1gbps), Virgin (1gbps) or various alt nets (usually 1gbps)

Is it cheap?

That's about the same speed for me (in US), and I could get gigabit, but I feel that the ~double cost isn't worth it.

It costs around 70 USD per month. Pretty expensive considered it’s not even gigabit speeds. But as others pointed out I may have better options to consider.