Got 2 at either side of my house and I can read a book without a light on, so unsure how CountZero thinks they throw light better.
It may be down to distance buildings are from the lights; in Bath, where many sodium lights have been replaced by LED, the houses behind, many of which are three or four stories, are now almost completely dark at night, whereas they would still have an orange cast across them with the old lights, plus after a certain time they dim by around 50%. When it’s foggy, you can clearly see a very sharp edge to the light, whereas the old sodium lights just had a fuzzy halo all around them. If you actually stand at the front door of these houses, you can’t actually see the nearest light at all, only the edges of the ones further away, but you’d need a torch to read anything in your hand.
I know, I’ve tried it when a friend of mine lived in Bath, after the new lights were introduced.
The lights down my road are mostly the old style vertical ‘coffee-grinder’ style, and illuminate everything around, except the path below, but some houses around a green just down the road have LED’s outside, when it’s dark the houses are very difficult to pick out detail on their frontage, but the access road/path is very clearly lit now