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Old 12-23-2015, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by biker1 View Post
I work from home (software development, I am ssh'd into multiple remote systems all day and move some pretty big tarballs around) and stream to two TVs using Roku boxes. I have 40 megabit/sec and it is overkill. Netflix in HiDef only uses 5 megabits/sec. I suspect most people probably pay for more bandwidth than they need and may only have access to a portion of the bandwidth because of poor WiFi performance.
I bumped up from 15 Mb/s to 300 Mb/s and the difference was night and day. I could not stream Netflix or Amazon with anything remotely like HD resolution and even then the image was pixelated as could be. Even YouTube spent way too much time buffering (and these were hard-wired connections, not WiFi). Maybe 300 Mb/s is overkill and 40 Mb/s is entirely adequate, but 300 Mb/s is pretty sweet.