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Agree. Id happy take my old plan back.
We had 55/15 for many, many years -- never an issue. Since it was DSL, it actually runs more steady than our current comcast 200/5.
Even with 4 of everything (imac, iapd, iPhone, MacBook), and subscribed to all the TV plans. We regularly come close to 1 TB a month, even going over.
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There's more upstream traffic than we used to have. Video conferencing, gaming, IoT, etc.
Per Ars, there was a 31.8 percent growth in downstream traffic and 51.1 percent growth in upstream traffic just since March of last year.
Since you've got FiOS, you're fine. If it were cable, that'd be another story.
Upstream traffic slows downstream speeds on non-fiber systems (cable) because of the way both streams of data have to share one "pipe" asynchronously. The upstream packets take priority, so if you saturate your limited upstream bandwidth you can easily find that hitting your meager 5Mbps upstream cap means that what's supposed to be 100Mbps downstream slows to almost nothing.
It's one of cable's dirty little secrets and it's the real reason why many people are compelled to pay for Gigabit with companies like Comcast (even if they don't realize that's why) where one might think that the cheap 25Mbps base plan should be sufficient. The base plan only provides 3Mbps upstream. Gigabit offers 35Mbps upstream.
The kids playing on the Xbox in the next room aren't slowing down your Netflix stream because they're sucking so much downstream bandwidth. They're slowing it down because the Xbox is sending too much data upstream. (Plus, your WiFi probably sucks. But that's for another thread.)
