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200Mbps isn't minimal service. It's more than most people need for anything they do online. Netflix suggests 25Mbps for 4K streaming.
by BugsJustFindMe 3y ago
200Mbps isn't minimal service. It's more than most people need for anything they do online. Netflix suggests 25Mbps for 4K streaming.
- cbg0 3y agoThis assumes you only have one TV doing 4K streaming, but most households might have more devices consuming bandwidth. Also, between $15 for 25mbps and $20 for 200mbps, the telco is making more profit off the latter, because at that scale bandwidth is dirt cheap and most services like Netflix deploy servers on-premise inside the telco's network.
- BugsJustFindMe 3y ago> This assumes you only have one TV doing 4K streaming, but most households might have more devices consuming bandwidth But no households are doing 8 simultaneous 4K streams. The "but you might be doing more than one thing at a time" case is really uncompelling once you get up past 100Mbps, as much as ISPs want to make people believe otherwise in their marketing.
- hughesjj 3y agoI wanna live in this world where the advertised rate is the minimum and not the optimistic maximum.