Well...there's what makes me happy and there's what makes other people
happy.
Just saying if you have the ability to manage consumption, then you can
get by with less. Average consumers will be happier not knowing and
just buying more.
On 11/2/2016 10:46 AM, Roger Timmerman wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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] <mailto:[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]
<mailto:[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.
