I have a 150megs to the house here and with 2 adults and 3 kids in the house this is what a 7day graph looks like. This is basically a wide open connection no throttling of anything, kids can do all the Netflix they want on 5 devices. [image: Inline image 1]
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Paul Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > I have 35/11 at home via two providers (bonded) - always wish I had more, > but from a practical perspective and someone who works from home a couple > of weeks a month, I think it’s adequate. It of course depends on what > applications you are using and if you need to transfer large files. > > In my case, it’s a lot of email, web based applications, and SSH activity > - pretty low requirements > > Paul > > > On Nov 2, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > > The FCC says 10/1 is adequate... > > *From:* Roger Timmerman > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 02, 2016 8:46 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] BW to work from home > > Is this a re-run from 2005? Are we really talking about 20M/5M or less > still being an option and being adequate? > > On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That could be part of it. I work from home with 3m/1m. It's not >> uncommon to have a kid watching cartoons on Netflix while I'm working. >> The thing is, most of what I'm doing across the network is remote >> terminals and remote desktops. And I'm clever enough that when I need to >> transfer a large file to the office I'll use WinSCP and put a speed limit >> on the transfer so I can keep doing other things. Some people might start >> the big file transfer and then call IT because nothing else works now. >> I'm aware that there are people using some Autodesk cloud >> storage/versioning thing that integrates with AutoCAD....they were told to >> *try >> *to get 10meg upload *if they can* and I believe they might really use >> it. >> >> >> On 11/2/2016 12:25 AM, Mathew Howard wrote: >> >> I think a lot of it is just lazy IT guys not wanting to deal with people >> causing problems by watching Netflix on six TVs while they're trying to >> work, so they just tell them they need five times the speed they actually >> do. >> >> We've had customers that were told they needed something like 3Mbps >> upload, but were able to do their jobs perfectly fine on a plan with 1Mbps >> upload. >> >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Jaime Solorza <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Nope... Getting more common... My daughter needs good upstream to upload >>> medical scans she does for several clinics and private doctors from house >>> or retirement places. She had to upgrade plan from TWC to accommodate >>> her. >>> >>> On Nov 1, 2016 9:52 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Twice in the past few weeks I’ve had prospective customers say they >>>> needed a minimum of 20M/5M per company IT dept to work from home, emphasis >>>> on the 5M upstream. >>>> >>>> This is a lot more than I’ve heard in the past, and seems high to me. >>>> In many cases even in town on cable Internet, they will need at least a >>>> plan with at least 50M download to get that much upload. My experience in >>>> the past has been that even our 3M/1M plan is actually sufficient for most >>>> people to work from home (assuming they aren’t contending with the rest of >>>> the family trying to watch Netflix and Youtube). >>>> >>>> Is this some kind of a trend, people needing that much upstream to work >>>> from home? Or just a coincidence I’ve had 2 requests like that in as many >>>> weeks. >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > >
