Re:100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband stan...
by kryogen1c on Thursday March 04, 2021 @05:45PM
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> Having lived with a family fo 4 using ADSL, it was not fun when 3 people watched Netflix on their own screens, and having to update a game.
streaming netflix in HD instead of UHD is 5mbps. 5x3=15, leaving 10 free to download a game. pretty reasonable. the pain was likely that you didnt have a real 25meg pipe, or that there was latency or jitter. a true 25Mbps would have been enough.
> the pandemic and WFH
I think you could make a strong argument that 3meg up is no longer sufficient. we live in an era where duo, facetime, and conference call programs and ubiquitous.
i do not, however, think you could make the argument that changing the download Mbps target from 25 to 100 is the best way to spend billions of dollars in a market that no one would accuse of being saturated and highly competitive.
streaming netflix in HD instead of UHD is 5mbps. 5x3=15, leaving 10 free to download a game. pretty reasonable. the pain was likely that you didnt have a real 25meg pipe, or that there was latency or jitter. a true 25Mbps would have been enough.
> the pandemic and WFH
I think you could make a strong argument that 3meg up is no longer sufficient. we live in an era where duo, facetime, and conference call programs and ubiquitous.
i do not, however, think you could make the argument that changing the download Mbps target from 25 to 100 is the best way to spend billions of dollars in a market that no one would accuse of being saturated and highly competitive.