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As the article points out the real speed depends on a lot of factors. Also, not all servers can serve you at your max speed. Currently what would be a decent sp

As the article points out the real speed depends on a lot of factors. Also, not all servers can serve you at your max speed. Currently what would be a decent speed, meaning you experience no lag...20 mb, 50mb ? Has anyone gone from 50mb to a lot more and felt a huge difference ?

olympus 9y ago
You will notice a difference if you live in a house with multiple people streaming at once. The most typical use case is a big family that wants full HD on their tablets plus a 4k stream in the living room. That requires a 100 mbps connection due to speeds slowing down in the evening (part of what the article is about), and needing a bit of extra speed to prevent buffering.
- dawnerd 9y ago
  I noticed a huge difference and it’s just me and my server (and two cats but I don’t think they’re using Netflix...). Normal day to day sites, no real difference. Loading up a steam game or the like, huuuuuge improvement. Also no talk about upload speeds which are an even bigger part of making the web faster.
  - tryingagainbro 9y ago
    Make sense, regular sites are usually under 10mb (2+mb average) https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-original-doom/ https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-origi... so load times are essentially the same if you have a 10mb connection or 1000mb
  - throw_away_4567 9y ago
    Big issue is wifi; if you live 50m from your neighbours, no problem, but most people are sharing the wifi bearer with 10's of others.
    - dawnerd 9y ago
      Equipment too. Using whatever junk your isp gives you isn’t going to do too well. Better to spend a few hundred bucks on something like a UniFi setup.
Freestyler_3 9y ago
browsing, no. steam, yes going from 20 > 500 (and 2>500 up) The upload makes it really nice, with all the cloud storage its really easy to back up a device in the cloud when I am wiping it. Faster than usb transfer.

olympus 9y ago

You will notice a difference if you live in a house with multiple people streaming at once. The most typical use case is a big family that wants full HD on their tablets plus a 4k stream in the living room. That requires a 100 mbps connection due to speeds slowing down in the evening (part of what the article is about), and needing a bit of extra speed to prevent buffering.

dawnerd 9y ago
I noticed a huge difference and it’s just me and my server (and two cats but I don’t think they’re using Netflix...). Normal day to day sites, no real difference. Loading up a steam game or the like, huuuuuge improvement. Also no talk about upload speeds which are an even bigger part of making the web faster.
- tryingagainbro 9y ago
  Make sense, regular sites are usually under 10mb (2+mb average) https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-original-doom/ https://www.wired.com/2016/04/average-webpage-now-size-origi... so load times are essentially the same if you have a 10mb connection or 1000mb
- throw_away_4567 9y ago
  Big issue is wifi; if you live 50m from your neighbours, no problem, but most people are sharing the wifi bearer with 10's of others.
  - dawnerd 9y ago
    Equipment too. Using whatever junk your isp gives you isn’t going to do too well. Better to spend a few hundred bucks on something like a UniFi setup.

Freestyler_3 9y ago

browsing, no. steam, yes going from 20 > 500 (and 2>500 up) The upload makes it really nice, with all the cloud storage its really easy to back up a device in the cloud when I am wiping it. Faster than usb transfer.