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Originally Posted by oneclickplus
The problem with xfinity is that their upload speed is crap. I won't argue your 25Mbps is [barely] enough for streaming (I prefer more for file download reasons), their upload speed might be 1Mbps. Yes, a measly "1". And, that's megaBITS. So, I need about 10 seconds to upload just 1MB (megaBYTE). That a very sluggish 6MB / minute.
Before you just dismiss that as "who needs upload speeds?", let's remind the reader that you need upload speed for things like dropbox, video uploads and cloud backups. If you want to backup a 100GB computer to Carbonite for example (which is not an unreasonable amount today), that would take 277 hours or a little over 11.5 days with xfinity.
You don't see those numbers in the advertisements for internet service. When shopping for internet, ask everyone of them what UPLOAD speed to expect. They all tout their download speeds but most don't like to talk about upload speeds which are critical today.
And, I too know what I'm taking about as I also do this kind of thing for a living.
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I'm one of those guys that actually uses upload speed. One small part of my job is video production. I also have had a youtube channel since 2006 and lately been doing BBQ videos. My NJ home is in the sticks and only recently was I able to get a 30mbit download pipe with 1.5mbit upload. It blows. We have been streaming for years on a 15mbit pipe though. When I do big uploads I bring it to my office where we have twin 10GBit pipes u/d although the 2nd one is just a fail-over on a different provider. This won't be an option when I retire in a few months and finally move to TV permanently.
99.99% of people in TV don't know what their upload speed is, nor do they care because they never push anything of substance up to the internet. Nor do any of them patch games, like Cyberpunk 2077 where a big download matters. We're not going to be back in TV again until next week, so I'm still in NJ. Last night when Cyberpunk went live, there was a 10gb patch!!!, this sucked because wife was streaming TV and so I had to limit the patch to 2mb on Steam. No, I am not a kid, I just act like one.
After the first year of Xfinity, I went to the 100mbit plan and I get 5mbit upload. Not anywhere near great, but again, it beats the old 768kbit I lived with in NJ for years. It's kind of like smoking a brisket. You just have to wait
