The FCC says 10/1 is adequate...
From: Roger Timmerman
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 8:46 AM
To: af@afmug.com
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 <dmmoff...@gmail.com> 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 <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.
