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I would say very few residential customers need more than 10Mbps upload. For 100Mbps you could run about 50 Zooms simultaneously. Who does that? Unless you ar
by morpheos137 6y ago
I would say very few residential customers need more than 10Mbps upload.
For 100Mbps you could run about 50 Zooms simultaneously. Who does that?
Unless you are massively uploading (likely illegal content) who needs greater than 10Mbps upstream at home?
- fletchowns 6y agoIt's not hard to generate a large volume of data with today's digital cameras (video & still). Backing that up to the cloud at 10 Mbps takes forever. Oh you want to switch cloud backup providers now? It will be another year before your initial backup completes.
- fomine3 6y agoThen we lose ability to develop new services that requires uplink bandwidth. Even now, there are services that need such bandwidth like cloud storages, YouTube.
- morpheos137 6y agoThis is kind of the whole problem with the world right now in multiple areas. We have a delusion that we are in a post scarcity age. I watch modern youtube videos on my 14 year old thinkpad on 802.11b wifi without issue. It works fine, seriously.
- lazide 6y agoYeah, why would I try to do an online backup of my data in less than a day? Or transfer high res video files somewhere? Or (gasp) host something? The current ISP setup is based on a consumer only model of the internet which benefits the big corps and stifles anyone trying to actually DO anything but consume.