Not an engineer. Wanted to know whether you folks agree with this statement: "for a typical household, the benefits of paying for more than 100 megabits a second are marginal at best, according to the researchers. That means many households are paying a premium for services they don’t need." https://www.wsj.com/graphics/faster-internet-not-worth-it/
Bandwidth is never an issue. Latency is the real deal and fiber helps in reliability. Look for those two.
He doesn’t like Raisin Bran, though :/
1. Reliability is huge too - many services go down all the time. 2. Often capacity is shared buying more might make it more likely you will get a reasonable amount. 3. ISPs don't know how to do configurations. I had a 300 Mbps and dropped down to 50 to save money and that day I stopped being able to do a Skype call - my upload ability got reduced way more than it should have because of some stupid pooling/throttling policy that made no sense. They did give me a 50% discount to re-upgrade. (And insisted s tech come out to inspect the wires... That we're fine in the morning and stopped working exactly when I did the downgrade...). 4. Data Caps. Often higher speeds come with higher data Caps.
Without fiber, 200-300 is max, not worth the premium unless on promo vs. 100 or so. I had Gig no fiber and even at $50/mo. I dropped it down to 150 and it's fine with gaming, 4k, and tons of IOT
If only Verizon would honor crossconnect w/ Lvl3 and not strangle it to dialup.. then it might actually mean something. And there are other casualties caught in the Netflix crossfire.
Yeah, for most people. I mean, most households don't really need more than 50 unless you're streaming on multiple devices and playing video games.