I swore my shop didn't need fiber, then a 40 minute upload changed my mind

For 3 years I ran my dog grooming shop on the cheapest cable plan I could get, and I told anyone who asked that fiber was overpriced hype for gamers. Then two weeks ago I tried to upload a batch of before and after photos to my booking site and it took 40 minutes while three clients stood at the counter waiting. My card reader timed out twice during that same stretch because the upload was hogging all the bandwidth, and I lost a $95 sale right there. I called the fiber company the next morning and they had me on a 500 Mbps business line by that Friday. My uploads finish in under a minute now and the card reader has not dropped once in 12 days. If you run a shop with customers in front of you, what speed did you finally settle on before things stopped lagging?

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the_mason4d ago

Waited three years to admit fiber helps?

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