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[jelv]

Multiple teenagers in the house and one or both parents? I bet it's a lot more common than you think (and quite possible multiple people watching the same thing simultaneously!).

[AArdvark]

Jelv, beat me too it

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[GigabitEthernet]

Multiple teenagers in the house and one or both parents? I bet it's a lot more common than you think (and quite possible multiple people watching the same thing simultaneously!).

But at 4K? 25Mbps would handle 2 or more 1080p streams easily.

In this house we have got 4 people in total. We all use iPlayer, Sky on Demand, etc. and 6Mb certainly isn't enough but I can't imagine us ever using more than 20Mbps at once - I know downloads scale to the available bandwidth but you get my point.

[waltergmw]

Gentlefolk,

It's worth noting that BT sometimes supply FTTH at an asynchronous speed of "Up to 80 Mbps download" I think for around £50.00 per month. 

I believe there is some requirement for reasonably fast speeds maybe up to 150 Mbps download and with nearly similar upload speeds as well. I have assisted a number of families with teenage children who are giving their parents a lot of grief as they can't all skype / watch content / download software updates simultaneously etc. etc.

See the picture below of my estimated download time for a 2 G BYTE software upgrade on a VM 152 Mbps service, although I suspect these times are extended by internet contention somewhere.

I can see a need for more synchronous speeds as cloud computing and video conferencing increase. However probably far more important in most users' requirements is far higher reliability without endless arguments that a service is still within the low arbitrary estimates provided at purchase time. This aspect is just as important for those still on very low speed ADSL services too. E.g.

1.  THREE bonded ADSL2+ services on one 20 pr cable running at 3.06 Mbps, 3.79 Mbps and 2.26 Mbps respectively and costing a small fortune too !

2.  An ADSL service quite ridiculously offered VDSL at 80 Mbps but only running at 1.28 Mbps down and 0.51 Mbps max up.

3.   Ditto at 0.44 Mbps down and a max of 0.51 up

4.   Ditto at 1.53 Mbps down and a max of 0.51 up

5.   An ADSL2 service running at 2.13 Mbps down and 0.94 Mbps up.

6.   A VDSL2 service running at 3.80 Mbps down and 0.94 Mbps up.

Kind regards,
Walter