WINDOWS 10 OS.

The amount of updates you have to download weekly is insane.

cripples my connection to do anything else for hours at a time. Have to switch to "metered connection" to trick it into thinking im connceted to internet on a smartphone with super expensive$$$ dataplan, so to leave any updates as 'frozen'.

(for a non tech saavy person, they would be driven nuts... every day their computer would just grind to a halt doing network stuff and not know why)

My rule of thumb is to budget 3 mbps for every "real computer" to keep itself up to date. By my count, in my home, that's 15. Here that's phones, traditional computers, VMs, and Raspberry Pis. And about 1 mbps for every "kinda computer". So that would include smart speakers and televisions.

Same applications as anywhere urban. We folk living out in the sticks may appreciate the outdoors more, but there's still those of us who do use computers.

Example: Downloading modern software over anything at 10mbps is a royal pain- VMs, docker containers, bloated IDEs, gigabytes worth of OS updates, tens of gigabytes for games, you name it.

Streaming services cap quality, or stutter out horribly. Don't even bother trying to stream over satellite (even at 25mbs with hughsnet, for example), you'll blow your cap out of the water in a hurry and it'll make you resent leaving the 90's.

Probably same applications that require more than 10mbps in non-rural places.

>What are some applications that requires more than 10mbps speed in rural places?

Why do rural areas need any lower internet speeds than you do in the city? What are you doing in the city that they aren't?

A family.