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qasdfdsaq · 29-06-2011, 03:10

Business users tend to be fairly light users of broadband to be honest, compared to home users. They need neither speed or high usage caps but rather reliability (unless online services are a core part of their business, at which point broadband isn't suitable, get a leased line).

As far as consumer "need", you don't "need" 100mb any more than you "need" 50mb or 30mb. Anything you "need" to do real-time can pretty much done with 10mb or less. Anything more makes downloads go faster but how much do you "need" to download a file in 10 minutes any more than you "need" it in 20 or 30 minutes?

Quad-HD streaming on youtube only takes 20mb and 1080p 3D takes 10mb. That's the highest real-time bandwidth consumer I can think of.

29-06-2011, 03:10	#7
qasdfdsaq cf.mega poster Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,207	Re: 1gb speeds on the horizon? Business users tend to be fairly light users of broadband to be honest, compared to home users. They need neither speed or high usage caps but rather reliability (unless online services are a core part of their business, at which point broadband isn't suitable, get a leased line). As far as consumer "need", you don't "need" 100mb any more than you "need" 50mb or 30mb. Anything you "need" to do real-time can pretty much done with 10mb or less. Anything more makes downloads go faster but how much do you "need" to download a file in 10 minutes any more than you "need" it in 20 or 30 minutes? Quad-HD streaming on youtube only takes 20mb and 1080p 3D takes 10mb. That's the highest real-time bandwidth consumer I can think of.