I use windows boxes all the time every day and have since windows 3.1 and I’ve never used cortana.

I don’t know of anyone who has. Ever.

If reddit doesn’t have to then why would an ISP?

This is precedent setting.

A very informative video on Linus tech tips where they ran a cable tester on lots of different cables. Super interesting.

I always tell people to get the full solid copper core cat6, no stranded, no copper clad.

At least for the important projects.

A digital cable that meets spec can’t be made better by gold plating or other bling. But a sub spec cable or a cable with some aspect degraded by damage or wear or contamination will introduce errors that will force the system to use whatever error correction is built in(such as with tcpip) that will hinder data speed. So, you can have a digital cable that works slower than spec but still “works”. Especially when you are running any sort of significant distance or there is noise such as fromn ac power.

My point is that even with digital connections a better cable can make a difference. Just on the low end not the high end.