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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 the
by 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 agoI 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 agoMake 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 agoBig 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 agoEquipment 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.