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      I think person* is the keyword here. Many families have several people concurrently watching streaming video, listening to music, and playing games that are required to have an internet connection. 100Mbps is not enough.

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          Yeah that one bothers me… The most demanding MP3s are what… 320kbps? That’s 3.3GB per day. That is not really a hard demand on bandwidth at all. 100GB/month. And that’s the max bitrate MP3 does… Most services are probably doing 128kbps…

          Spotify has an Audio quality table on their site… https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/

          Low = 24kbps, 0.2471923828 GB/day
          Normal = 96 kbps, 0.9887695313 GB/day
          High = 160 kbps, 1.6479492188 GB/day
          Very High = 320 Kbps, 3.2958984375 GB/day

          These are very reasonable and easy numbers to obtain on just about any internet connection. The only way this is an “issue” is if you’re running like a couple hundred streams at once.

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        1 year ago

        Right, but this is about setting a minimum standard for it to be classified as broadband. For an average individual 100Mbps is high speed internet.

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        No way, that would be 6.25 MB/s for tv. For a two hour movie that would be 50GB. Is a 4k movie really 50GB?

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          Depends on the quality. YouTube 4k is about 25mbit/s, so that’s 3-4 4k YouTube videos playing at the same time on a 100Mb/s connection.

          4k Blu-Rays OTOH can be about 50GB or larger even. You wouldn’t ordinarily stream that but you could stream one or two blu-rays with a 100Mb/s connection.

          100Mbit/s is plenty for current use-cases.

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          1 year ago

          Is a 4k movie really 50GB?

          I have a number of movies (about 100-ish titles) in my library that are well above 50Mbps.

          Back to the future (1989) as an example is 72.24 GB in my library.

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      1 year ago

      I would like to disagree, since every “news” site started adding auto playing videos and ads on each and every page. what should be a 2kB text now comes with a 50MB video Download…

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        1 year ago
        1. get yourself a good adblocker (ublock origin)
        2. Block autoplay by default (firefox has had this for years, chromium just added it)
        3. start deliberately avoiding such sites when you can