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I wish there was some attention paid to upload speeds too. A 100Mbps connection often only has 1-5Mbps upload which seriously handicaps it for work and hobbyists.

Hence I consider anything that’s not symmetric fiber to not be worthy of mentioning, because I know you’re getting on upload (and probably latency and packet loss too).

50+ is a rather large bin. Netflix recommends 25+ for streaming 4K, so we could assume 50+ is ~2 4K streams, which seems like a normal amount for a family.

There’s a big difference between a house getting 50down and 5up and a house with a symmetric gigabit fiber connection.

In other words, the interesting comparison is two log histograms (or overlaid).

Sure although I would say you can't just throw it into log bins automatically.. some data you need to massage it to what makes the most sense.

In general, no need for histograms, if you learn to love cumulative distribution functions (or CDF for short).

See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_functi...

They sort of did compare it in a bin fashion, since they gave the median.