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Originally Posted by kingofbeer
My download speed with Spectrum is 101 Mbps, upload is 11 Mbps. The speed is adequate for my needs. Not sure why you need superfast upload speed there. I have always seen upload speed at about 10% of download speed with comcast or spectrum or any other provider that I had.
According to speedtest:
Your Internet connection should be able to handle multiple devices streaming HD videos, video conferencing, and gaming at the same time.
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Your statement and opinion is correct in that everyone has their own specific use case and needs. Generally, 500Mbs upload and download speeds are becoming the norm and the "sweet spot" these days. Why? becasue besides the usual streaming and surfing the internet, many have video door bells, cameras and are backing up their PCs to the cloud. Every time you access the cameras or video doorbell, unless you have local storage, the alert and video has to be streamed to the server of the doorbell company, then streamed back to your device. For video door bells, you want this to be as quick as possibe. With cable upload speeds the delay "can be" significant making the video doorbell less effective. As far as backing up to the cloud, again the slow cable upload speeds make these full backups, when they occur, take a very long time. With fiber 500Mbs bidirectional speeds, none of this is a concern. Finally, because cable internet is a
Shared system meaning you are sharing bandwidth with all your neighbors, you want some extra capacity/speed or you will find your 200Mbs download and 20Mbs upload speeds are actually 100Mbs download and 5Mbs upload during peak times. Cable companie try to engineer their networks to minimize this but they are "taking-a-beating" with all the competition and do their best to save money so extra bandwidth is not always there. Hope this helps.