Is 10 Mbps (DSL) enough for Home IT/SW Eng worker?

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Hey folks,

First off sorry as I'm sure this question has been beat to death - I've googled this from different angles and thought this would be the best place to ask.

I'm a remote worker - I do quite a bit of connecting to my company's VPN to remote desktop onto PCs and work throughout the day investigating bugs etc - I also use Putty - to connect to Unix boxes. I also download log files etc fairly often.

We are looking to buy a house that is in a remote area where the only option at the moment is Century Link DSL - at 10Mbps (no cable.) Where I'm at now - with CableOne - I have just over 70Mbps and am completely spoiled - I think my upload is either 5 or 7 Mbps.

To be honest - I couldn't really tell much difference after leaving the realm of 20Mbps - definitely a huge improvement in concurrent access among others in the house (son a gamer and wife using Netflix.)

Now if I'm the only one on the network during working hours - do you think I could get by with 10 Mbps DSL?

Really the question being - anyone else in a similar situation working remotely and completely comfortable with 10Mbps through DSL?

Thanks as always for the excellent advise.

Chris
 
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Here in UK I have Broadband with less than 10MBit/s only about 7MBit./s

I have no problem logging on remotely to a system where there is a collection of virtual machines on a server with lots of RAM and CPU threads.
Most of the time only the display on the screen has to be updated over the connection.

At work most staff have thin Clients on their desk (Intel Atom CPU in very small box) and connect to similar virtual machines on the servers

(I am not going to mention the software used only to say there is a client version for Intel Windows and Intel Mac)

regards
Mike Barnes

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Hi

Here in UK I have Broadband with less than 10MBit/s only about 7MBit./s

I have no problem logging on remotely to a system where there is a collection of virtual machines on a server with lots of RAM and CPU threads.
Most of the time only the display on the screen has to be updated over the connection.

At work most staff have thin Clients on their desk (Intel Atom CPU in very small box) and connect to similar virtual machines on the servers

(I am not going to mention the software used only to say there is a client version for Intel Windows and Intel Mac)

regards
Mike Barnes

 
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Thanks very much Mike - that is great to hear. We did have DSL many years back which replaced dial-up and man that was a huge improvement - I do not recall having any issues with DSL performance wise. Thanks again.
 
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