Before moving to 40 megabits/sec, we had 10 megabits/sec download. We had no issues streaming Netflix in 1080p HiDef on 2 sets at the same time. The move to 40 megabits/sec was motivated by an attempt to improve the voice quality of my Voice-over-IP phone (via the associated increase in the upload bandwidth). The phone issue was resolved and didn't appear to be bandwidth related but we kept the 40 megabits/sec. I see faster scps of larger files but Netflix quality is unchanged as 10 megabits/sec is sufficient to sustain two HiDef streams. Century Link is pretty solid. Perhaps your problems were Comcast quality of service issues and not bandwidth.
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Originally Posted by JerryLBell
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. 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.
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