Agreed. My in-laws live in an area where there's so much wireless interference from neighbors that they can't even use the entirety of their 200/20 (or whatever it is) cable service.
From: "Josh Luthman" <josh@imaginenetworksllc.com>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2021 12:54:37 PM
Subject: Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
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
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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.
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Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>