[wffurr]

As the article shows, you can run 10 concurrent video calling sessions over 5 Mbps upload. That’s hardly “I’m going to have a conference call, could you not use the internet”.

There’s plenty of use cases for higher upload bandwidth, some of which you mentioned, but VCs on current generation laptops isn’t one of them.

A bigger issue is over reliance on WiFi in dense neighborhoods or through multiple walls. A better or more widely deployed in-unit wired network technology would be more impactful for a lot of people. I wish cat6 Ethernet was standard in construction, but in the US at least it seems to not be still. Our building was renovated in 2009 and has plenty of coaxial connections: 3 in the living room and 1 per bedroom, but no Ethernet. I’ve been slowly adding Ethernet to the coax plates, but it’s a real pain in the tail to do in an already built building.

[Jonnax]

Does the article show that?

Is there any examples of the quality of the video? If someone's face is a handful of pixels and them presenting their screen is a blur or super laggy, is that good enough?

What happens if one person makes a Google Duo call? That's in HD.

Or if one person turns on their console and starts uploading a save file to the cloud?

5mbps is horrendous.

[KozmoNau7]

You can run networking over your existing coax wiring, with MoCA 2.5 you can get over 1Gbps, which does require you to buy adapters, but you don't have to pull new cabling.