[jjav]

> I wonder where is the breakpoint in throughput where it become useless to have more. While ATT stance of 50/10 is certainly not enough for common usages

How is it not enough? That's more than double what I get.

Here (in Silicon Valley) I get 23Mbps up / 1.5Mbps down. Seems plenty for nearly anything I can think of doing. With 13 months of stay at home and three concurrent zoom session running pretty much all day, it works just fine, never a hiccup.

The only use case where I wish for more upload bandwidth is for uploading backups to remote servers.

[benhurmarcel]

> Here (in Silicon Valley) I get 23Mbps up / 1.5Mbps down. Seems plenty for nearly anything I can think of doing.

That’s barely enough to stream 4k on one screen. It’s common now to stream to several screens, one per person basically. Now everything is streamed, even gaming.

I imagine your ping isn’t great to go with that. Even with uses that don’t need a stream, large downloads and uploads must take forever.

Really I’m surprised that in SV you get such a bad connection, but in addition you can’t see the uses a better one would allow. That’s a bandwidth you get in rural houses around Europe, not acceptable for cities let alone a tech hub.

I would relent living in a place with less than 100/30 and 10ms ping nowadays. Luckily here you get 600 symmetrical with 3ms ping across the whole city by default, even on the cheapest plans.

[C4stor]

A 4K video is 16Mbps, it seems reasonable that a household would want to have 3 of that running, or at least will want that in the near future. With the common background traffic already present on connections, it doesn't seem quite enough. It's not "super not enough", it just seems to me plausible that common households will want more.