Yes... I have 4M/512K DSL at home (outside our coverage area), and I often work from home. There are ways to make just about anything work with less if you put some effort into it, and I can't see any reason why what most of our customers that work from home do should be bandwidth intensive (and their actual usage confirms that it really isn't), but their IT people still tell them they need more.
If you're needing to work with hi-resolution images, or something like that, yes - you need a fast connection, there's really no way around either getting a faster connection or spending a lot of time sitting around waiting... but in my experience, the majority of them aren't doing anything like that. On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <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. >>>> >>> >> >> > >
