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I'm on Verizon FiOS in Pennsylvania, with the standard residential 15/5 service, it's 10:44PM, and Netflix is streaming at a steady 3-4Mb/s. I guess I'm lucky?

I'm on Verizon FiOS in Pennsylvania, with the standard residential 15/5 service, it's 10:44PM, and Netflix is streaming at a steady 3-4Mb/s. I guess I'm lucky? http://i.imgur.com/akih9HA.png http://i.imgur.com/akih9HA.png

samstave 13y ago
You're on FIOS and you're getting 3-4MB/s and you're feeling lucky? How sad.
- dangrossman 13y ago
  It's higher than Google Fiber's average speed per the article. Netflix doesn't saturate connections, it doesn't take that much to stream an HD movie. They also don't stream "Super HD" to browsers which is the only way to get a higher bitrate than that.
- xxpor 13y ago
  He only has 15 Mbit service. He's actually getting ~2x what he's paying for.
  - tzakrajs 13y ago
    3Mbps is 0.20x (of 15Mbps) what he is paying for.
    - willvarfar 13y ago
      Bits != Bytes. Mbps == Megabits/sec MBps == Megabytes/sec
      - chomp 13y ago
        >I'm on Verizon FiOS in Pennsylvania, with the standard residential 15/5 service, it's 10:44PM, and Netflix is streaming at a steady 3-4Mb/s. I guess I'm lucky? He wrote bits, he's only using a 5th of his pipe.
        reeses 13y ago
        Corroborated by the png he linked.
      - lsaferite 13y ago
        dangrossman said Mb/s samstave mistakenly read that as MB/s
        samstave 13y ago
        Yeah, I thought he was referring to his whole connection... And while his link is 15/5 -- I still thin thats slow for FiOS -- but I had misread his comment..... I may have also been drinking.
- jamroom 13y ago
  Just because someone has a 15Mbps connection doesn't mean Netflix will eat it all up - Netflix will use the minimum bandwidth needed to stream the quality of video being watched. Sounds like it is working great in this case.
- talmand 13y ago
  Are we assuming one Netflix stream requires the full pipe? I'm on FIOS; while the kids are watching Netflix in the living room, the wife is watching Netflix in the bedroom, and I'm playing a multiplayer game with no lag on the desktop. Seems everything works sharing the pipe just fine.

samstave 13y ago

You're on FIOS and you're getting 3-4MB/s and you're feeling lucky? How sad.

dangrossman 13y ago
It's higher than Google Fiber's average speed per the article. Netflix doesn't saturate connections, it doesn't take that much to stream an HD movie. They also don't stream "Super HD" to browsers which is the only way to get a higher bitrate than that.
xxpor 13y ago
He only has 15 Mbit service. He's actually getting ~2x what he's paying for.
- tzakrajs 13y ago
  3Mbps is 0.20x (of 15Mbps) what he is paying for.
  - willvarfar 13y ago
    Bits != Bytes. Mbps == Megabits/sec MBps == Megabytes/sec
    - chomp 13y ago
      >I'm on Verizon FiOS in Pennsylvania, with the standard residential 15/5 service, it's 10:44PM, and Netflix is streaming at a steady 3-4Mb/s. I guess I'm lucky? He wrote bits, he's only using a 5th of his pipe.
      - reeses 13y ago
        Corroborated by the png he linked.
    - lsaferite 13y ago
      dangrossman said Mb/s samstave mistakenly read that as MB/s
      - samstave 13y ago
        Yeah, I thought he was referring to his whole connection... And while his link is 15/5 -- I still thin thats slow for FiOS -- but I had misread his comment..... I may have also been drinking.
jamroom 13y ago
Just because someone has a 15Mbps connection doesn't mean Netflix will eat it all up - Netflix will use the minimum bandwidth needed to stream the quality of video being watched. Sounds like it is working great in this case.
talmand 13y ago
Are we assuming one Netflix stream requires the full pipe? I'm on FIOS; while the kids are watching Netflix in the living room, the wife is watching Netflix in the bedroom, and I'm playing a multiplayer game with no lag on the desktop. Seems everything works sharing the pipe just fine.