Download only, yes? And what about the busy-Sunday night problem? This seems so besides the point.
Cable at an apartment building I visit is often 300mbps, but Sunday evening it can have horrible jitter and lag and much slower speeds. It's incredibly frustrating; common sites can be basically unusable.
This also feels like it's setting a bar where most DSL systems wont have any chance of competing. In cities I can be more sympathetic (put in more pops) but in rural areas, this feels like a barrier that is extremely cost prohibitive to make happen, for not great reasons.
I usually pay for 50mbps, but I can live comfortably on 25mbps if need be (sometimes I drop my connection speed to save money). However, I have a fibre connection, where QoS is 100% 100% of the time. 25mbps is totally fine for web browsing, gaming, and streaming. The only issue is downloads, which simply take more time. I'd still rather have a rock solid 25mbps than 300mbps with jitter. Cable is garbage. Always has been, always will be.
With VDSL and supervectoring you can get 250MBit/s, provided you aren't more than a quarter of a mile or so from the multiplexer. Which is probably not cost-effective in most of America due to the low density of suburbia, never mind rural places.
Cable at an apartment building I visit is often 300mbps, but Sunday evening it can have horrible jitter and lag and much slower speeds. It's incredibly frustrating; common sites can be basically unusable.
This also feels like it's setting a bar where most DSL systems wont have any chance of competing. In cities I can be more sympathetic (put in more pops) but in rural areas, this feels like a barrier that is extremely cost prohibitive to make happen, for not great reasons.