Netomnia have offered 10Gb for a while now. They're laying around our area atm, though not in our street yet. If/when they do arrive, we'd be taking the 10Gb service unless it was prohibitively expensive (more than a couple of hundred a month). As ChrisD said, they're an alt-net, and a rapidly expanding one at that - their investment is almost £40m just in my city alone.
Netomnia - 10gbps upgrade
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What would you use 10Gb for? Don't get me wrong, if I could get it I would. I think for me, hosting servers at home would be the main reason.
Same. (1) Commercial SLA, (2) bandwidth for my (many) servers (3) e-peen, but really 'because I can' gives me loads of scope for new homelab fun implementing and running the network (my main interest tbh). Plus, with a /28 or even /29 (with the benefit of a /56 or /64 of IPv6) I'd be able to bring some off-prem servers back under my own roof and save on hosting costs. Pulling 10Gb fibre directly to my rack/x86 router, SFP+ link to a 10Gbps SFP+ core switch so I can run fibre directly off to the main servers, and a single 10Gbps fibre trunk downlinked to a 1Gbps switch to manage the legacy copper infra and clients. Probably (but not certainly) an upgrade to the Ruckus wireless AP at some point, but tbh it handles 50+ clients with 0.0* load - and who really needs more than 500Mbps WiFi in a house with fibre and 10Gb copper on tap? I'd be in my element, and once the main basic infra services and my dozen or so 'usual' servers were running, I'd probably end up mirroring some distros (Alpine, Debian, *EL) just for the lulz.
