I always assumed it's about oversubscription ratios and problematic connections. This way the 256 to 512 they can skirt by on will most likely always be there. I would beat that dealing with issues on 3/1 dsl that's more a 768/512 has led them to just blanket demand more. Same thing with them saying no wireless isps, they've dealt with too many fly by night outfits who run shitty networks. That's the reason we tell our home workers just not to tell their it it's wireless and they'll never know. Same concept of software vendors that won't offer support if they know it's in a vm
On Nov 1, 2016 11:25 PM, "Mathew Howard" <mhoward...@gmail.com> 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 <losguyswirel...@gmail.com> 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" <af...@kwisp.com> 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. >> >
