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
<losguyswirel...@gmail.com <mailto: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
<mailto: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.
