> what is the difference to your work between 10 and 100mbps, really?
From personal experience as an Australian freelance developer who works mostly remotely, the difference is screencasts and video calls where the other party's screen is fuzzy and sometimes unreadable, with frequent call (or at least video) dropouts/stuttering, vs crystal clear clarity and no dropouts/stuttering.
It's also useful if you are dealing with clients that have medium-large datasets (> 1GB) for you to use. It's the difference between a few minutes transfer or a few hours. I've had cases where the client was local and it was faster for me to catch public transport in to the city and back to pick up a USB with the data rather than transfer it online. That's the lucky case when the client was local - good luck if they're based overseas.
I'm currently in Taiwan and have a 100mbps connection - the difference in doing these things vs doing it in Australia on a 10mbps connection is night and day.
Killing the FTTH NBN was an incredibly short sighted decision.
From personal experience as an Australian freelance developer who works mostly remotely, the difference is screencasts and video calls where the other party's screen is fuzzy and sometimes unreadable, with frequent call (or at least video) dropouts/stuttering, vs crystal clear clarity and no dropouts/stuttering.
It's also useful if you are dealing with clients that have medium-large datasets (> 1GB) for you to use. It's the difference between a few minutes transfer or a few hours. I've had cases where the client was local and it was faster for me to catch public transport in to the city and back to pick up a USB with the data rather than transfer it online. That's the lucky case when the client was local - good luck if they're based overseas.
I'm currently in Taiwan and have a 100mbps connection - the difference in doing these things vs doing it in Australia on a 10mbps connection is night and day.
Killing the FTTH NBN was an incredibly short sighted decision.