Comments on: Musings on Broadband https://blog.garysims.co.uk/2012/01/12/musings-on-broadband/ The quality of keen and farsighted judgment Fri, 03 May 2013 04:18:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Matthew S https://blog.garysims.co.uk/2012/01/12/musings-on-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:12:41 +0000 http://blog.garysims.co.uk/?p=203#comment-231 I recently upgraded to ~80Mbps download primarily because the _upload_ speed was increased to 20Mbps. I also got unlimited bandwidth at the same time.

The result of that was that 20GB of photos could be backed up on SkyDrive in a reasonable time.

]]> By: Alex K https://blog.garysims.co.uk/2012/01/12/musings-on-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:45:28 +0000 http://blog.garysims.co.uk/?p=203#comment-204 You don’t really need that much. Here in Cyprus I downgraded my service from 6Mbps to 4Mbps saving an extra 10 EUR/month. I always thought that there are more important metrics to a satisfactory broadband service than download bandwidth. For example ping response time, degradation during peak hours, quality of service etc. Once I’ve passed the threshold of being able to stream HD videos without delays than the extra bandwidth doesn’t really provide any additional benefits. Does it really make a difference if it takes 12mins to download a 1 GB file instead of 10?

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