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 <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > > 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. >>> >>> >> > >
