People who work from home use the internet differently from people who only watch movies. They spend the day on video calls, upload files to the cloud and cannot drop in the middle of a presentation.
1. Stability matters more than speed
A video call uses little, around 4 Mbps. What drops the meeting is an unstable connection, and that is where fiber makes a difference, because rain and electrical interference do not affect it.
2. Upload speed
When you speak in a meeting, your video goes up to the internet. When you send a spreadsheet, a video or a heavy file, the upload does the work. On fiber the upload is much higher than on radio or cable connections.
3. The rest of the household online at the same time
The meeting happens while someone watches a series in the living room and someone else plays games in the bedroom. The plan has to handle the whole house during work hours, and not just your computer.
Tips that help in meetings
- Computer on an Ethernet cable. It takes the meeting out of the fight for Wi-Fi
- 5 GHz network, if you need Wi-Fi and are close to the router
- System updates outside work hours. They download heavy files without warning
For working from home with the household online at the same time, Speed 600, for R$ 120 a month, usually handles it. With more people working or studying at once, Soma 800 gives you more headroom.
