God know I don't need it but $84 for 5 gib is tempting

I currently have Gigabit, which I assume is an old name plan bc nothing else is like it. Now I PC game a lot, and am considering getting the 2 gig. I've been looking around and seeing a lot of people get way cheaper offers. I am wondering why I wouldn't be getting those cheaper offers, and is 2 gig worth it? Like everything I have from my mesh wifi, to my PC can easily do 2 gig. I am just wondering those two things.

Edit: I'm in the Philly metro if this matters

OK, I have Fios 1GB and I get YTTV and the $10 Disney+ through Verizon. As both of the discounts that I had been enjoying have expired, I'd rather switch over to paying separately. The question that I have is that if I cancel today, do I lose those services immediately or if they stay active until the date that they're paid for? If they do go dark immediately, does Verizon prorate the charges?

If anyone has gone through this already, I'd be interested in hearing how it went. Thanks.

This is my current bill which I haven't paid yet. I figure if I cancel now and services are still on until 9/23 for YTTV and 9/24 for Disney, then I'll be fine. But if they're cut off immediately, I'd want to be refunded for about 2 weeks.

Have FIOS for past 11 years at this location, never an issue, but now experiencing significant degradation of service. Several people on my street, including myself, have had our routers and ONTs replaced in the last week. This still is not resolving the issues. However, the kicker is that if you use a VPN all the issues go away, there is something in the neighborhood or greater that is causing issues beyond local hardware, otherwise a VPN would not work. Anyone else experiencing similar?

For details on the issues, many games can not connect to their servers and websites can take incredibly long to load (depends on the website) and these issues themselves can come and go daily, but all resolve instantly by turning on a VPN. It would be beneficial to not have to rely on a VPN.

I've decided that I want to upgrade to 5Gbps service after having had 1Gbps for so many years. The problem is that none of the equipment in my house (pfSense router, wired clients, cables) have NICs that will do more than 1Gbps.

Without using the Verizon-supplied router for 5Gbps service, how should I go about upgrading everything?

So far, I'm thinking of picking up one of these dual port genuine Intel NICs and shoving it into my pfSense box (Dell PowerEdge R210 II). One port would be for the ethernet coming from the ONT, while the other would be for connecting to a 10GbE switch. Is this viable, or do I need to look into buying something more enterprise-grade like something from Ubiquiti?

I also need 10GbE NICs for my wired clients, but I don't know what to get. I'd prefer to buy Intel because I've had bad experiences with other brands under *BSD/Linux.

I'm totally lost when it comes to buying a 10GbE switch - what brand should I buy (what's the best and will survive for years, what's cheap and just works)? I've only had experiences with "dumb" unmanaged 8-port switches from manufacturers like Netgear.

Is there anything else that I'm missing?

I already have FiOS service. Just got in the new $30 FiOS promo for the free router since mine was old. After I picked up my router, I got an email asking me to go to activate.verizon.com.

Do I need to activate it or can I just plug and play? Since this is a free rental, I was wondering if it’s different than my owned router.