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Americans who host media servers for friends & family and are forced to use a cable-based ISP, what is your upload/download setup? Also, what is your rationale for your speeds?

Xfinity is not cheap, upload speeds are garbage and although I want my users to have a great experience, I don't want to spend tons of money to host this?

Do you make your users pay for access? That seems pretty shitty imo but I'm hosting encodes (no remuxes) but between my various non-local family members and a couple buddies from college, I'm maxing out my upload speeds and need to figure out what to do.

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[–] ryan_@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I started self hosting when I had only 100Mbps down/10Mbps up. For about 5 years years I told my friends and family that I didn't have fast upload speeds so if several people were streaming at the same time there could be issues. Beggers cant be choosers, so they got what they got. That being said, I always tried to get smaller files so that less bandwidth was needed and that helped a lot

I lived alone so 100Mbps down/10Mbps up was plenty for me and I wasn't going to upgrade to a faster plan. I also worked from home with those speeds without any issues and I would have continued with that internet plan if I still lived there. My new place includes 1.2Gb down/up so bandwidth isn't the bottleneck for me any longer.