In tests of internet access services used by 53 of its journalists, the Wall Street Journal has concluded that most people do not use but a fraction of the capacity they pay for as buyers of fixed network internet access.
Is faster better, for most people? “For most people, the answer is no,” say a team of writers including Shalini Ramachandran, Thomas Gryta, Kara Dapena and Patrick Thomas, writers for the Wall Street Journal.
The big caveat is that this study looked at applications such as video streaming, gaming and other common apps, and were not specially focused on downloading.
As this chart suggests, experience is improved most at the lower end of the speed scale, say 55 Mbps or so. “For a typical household, the benefits of paying for more than 100 megabits a second are marginal at best, according to the researchers” say.
These sorts of results would not be unexpected or unusual by anybody who actually studies such matters.
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