Benefit of faster internet speed?

Hi, I currently have a 20Mbps subscription in US. It's probably the best speed I ever had and I'm satisfied with it.
I play mostly play offline games games and do school work. Is there any benefit for faster internet speed?
I'm playing dota 2 and download most of my games from steam.
The only benefit I can think of for >20Mbps speed is if you do a lot of download/torrent.

I have a mediocre Belkin N150 modem and stock Y580 wifi card

 

In terms of gaming you don't benefit from the bandwidth at all- you only benefit from the latency (actually it's the other way around - you suffer from a high latency).
So faster connection (in terms of bandwidth) will give you nothing but shorter download times from Steam.

Short answer- no.

 

Yeah that' s what I thought too. I think the upgrade is more beneficial if there is more user to capitalize the bandwidth
what about torrent? the fastest download speed was 2.5Mbps. Is it possible to go beyond that?

 

You mean 2.5MB/s? If that's the case- no, not with your connection- 20mbps is 2.5MB/s/
If you upgraded- sure it would be possible although at some point your router could start being a bottleneck. Not if you;re really close to it but if you're not than it could be a potential bottleneck.

 

Ah yes I meant MB/s. but the router said up to 150Mbps, so that's like 7.5 time of my current speed (theoretically)
Alrighty then, looks like I'm good for now. Thanks

 

In reality you don't et even half of what router shows as connection speed- more like one third. For a 150mbps connection you would get some 5MB/s with the best reception possible and less than that if you're far from the router, so if you were to upgrade your connection and you're not close to the router- you should upgrade the router too.
But so far so good.

 

Wow, I didn't know it is that low. I thought it's like at least 50-60%. Good to know.. Will keep that in mind

 

I remember each time my dad upgraded our dial-up modem. Each speed increase seemed blazingly fast.

Now my phone gets much faster speeds than the first cable modem I had.