Was that the fault of the broadband provider or was that the fault of the indoor WiFi? Is it possible the router has so much interference from all of the neighbors and everyones using 2.4 GHz? What if that example had a cable connection with 960/40 mbps and they're limited to 5 mbps up because of the in house WiFi solution? Would upping the broadband plan to 1000/1000 fix that problem? Josh Luthman 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 2:56 PM Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> said:
"Bad connection" measures way more than throughput.
What about WFH or telehealth doesn't work on 25/3?
More than one person in a residence, home security systems (camera, doorbell, etc.) uploading continuously, and more.
I know multiple people that had issues with slow Internet during the last year as two adults were working from home and 1-3 children were also schooling from home. Parents had to arrange work calls around their kids classroom time and around each other's work calls, because of limited bandwidth.
The time of the Internet being a service largely for consumption of data is past. While school-from-home may be a passing thing as the pandemic wanes, it looks like work-from-home (at least part time) is not going to go away for a whole lot of people/companies.
-- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>