Benefits of 200Mb/s upload speed?

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#160026 20-Dec-2014 17:55

I'm looking at moving to BigPipe, their 200/200 plan is $30 more expensive per month than the 200/20 plan.

What types of users would benefit from an upload speed of 200?

We're big users of Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV in our household so lots of streaming going on, but not much going on up to the cloud so not sure I'd benefit that much from the higher upload speed?

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#1201170 20-Dec-2014 18:06

even downloading uses upload, so everything should be slightly faster

but if its mainly for streaming Netflix etc its probably not worth the extra $30/month

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#1201176 20-Dec-2014 18:12

Online gaming (p2p hosting), Cloud backup's, Youtube uploads etc?

Do whatever you want to do man.

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#1201180 20-Dec-2014 18:24

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#1201195 20-Dec-2014 19:01

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#1201204 20-Dec-2014 19:09

Given the first month is free, sign up for 200Mb upstream and see if you can actually make use of it. I'd bet that you can't.

The absolute best sustained upload speed I got for cloud backup was 21Mbs^-1, which certainly doesn't justify $30 per month more for 200Mbs^-1. As another poster pointed out, downloads require uploads, so my suggestion would be rather than look at if you can you make use of 200Mb, you should consider if being limited to 20Mb might cause a problem.

Personally, I decided to keep my money. Rarely used upstream speed is not worth $30 to me, but I'd jump at 50Mb or 100Mb upstream if it were available, or 200Mb without the absurd premium.

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#1201207 20-Dec-2014 19:11

Good idea I'll give it a crack for the first month and see if I notice $30 worth of difference in performance.

I do online gaming, no backing up to the cloud, minimal YouTube uploading.