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Re:The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers by vinay_ys on Saturday June 27, 2020 @11:50AM (#23662558)
Most video conference uses ~4Mbps for your video feed going out. It is more likely you need 100Mbps upload for doing backups or uploading photos or home videos etc. For a household with 2 people working from home and also watching a ton of streaming content, 50Mbps up/down would be just fine, if you can get it reliably.

Anything more than that, especially in gigabit range is just gimmicks, IMO.

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Re:The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers by kspacewalk2 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:38PM (#23662823)
Totally agreed. Reliable 30 Mbps is enough for me and my wife to simultaneously join Teams or Zoom video calls without issues. It's enough even when our preschooler wants to call a friend on Zoom at the same time, which happened once. And it's enough to watch Netflix in HD on two screens at once.
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