[cook1984]

The current proposed upload speeds for 50 meg are a joke. If you sit down and work it out, they are just enough to sustain the ACKs required for one full 50 meg download using one TCP connection. Since you are pretty unlikely to get 50 meg on one connection the amount of data that needs to be uploaded to max it out is way beyond your upload limit, and thus in practice 50 meg will most likely be unattainable.

The idea that the whole family can use the connection at once, as was suggested on the BBC's Click, is an even bigger joke. They showed someone uploading photos while others watched streaming video, downloaded and played games. Considering the limited upload speeds and the fact that VM routers have no traffic prioritisation at all that simply isn't going to happen. More like the uploading and downloading will slow to a crawl as they compete with each other, while the video stutters and freezes and the game is kicked off for having a ridiculous ping time.