Hi everyone,
Not too experienced in networking and I have seen a lot of talk about this lately.
As a consumer, doesn’t only the download speed only really matter? Unless you are uploading videos to YouTube or something?
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Depends on your usage.
Things it would be useful for:
Multiple security cameras with cloud storage.
Livestreaming your video games.
Uploading videos to youtube.
Remote file storage/offsite backups.
Hosting files for other people to download.
When downloading, you use some upload too, for requests and acknowledgment. This means that when the upload is maxed out, download performance suffers too, along with all kinds of latency sensitive uses that don’t use much bandwidth.
Also keep in mind that the capacity may be split between multiple customers.
Personally, I would pay a bit extra for more upload speed, up to around 100Mbit/s. I don’t think I’d pay much extra to go from 100Mbit/s to 1Gb/s upload.
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