[RTC List] Broadband speeds and stability for streaming video?

[Tina Nerat]

I have Suddenlink at my house in Cutten (our only choice, no DSL in our
neighborhood, nor do I have line of sight to 101Netlink), and I usually get
at least 6mb down and 400-500kb up. It's been pretty reliable and consistent
for us. A couple years ago I had slow speeds and took my cable modem down to
Suddenlink to get swapped out, which fixed the problem. I sure wish they
offered higher speed uploads now that I'm moving bigger files around. Tina

 

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From: list-bounces at redwoodtech.org [mailto:list-bounces at redwoodtech.org] On
Behalf Of Dave Thewlis
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 2:10 PM
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Subject: [RTC List] Broadband speeds and stability for streaming video?

 

We have started to look at the Roku Netflix box, which is a streaming video
gadget to connect internet directly to a TV.  Roku say they need a minimum
of 1.2 Megabyes/second to provide a decent quality picture.

Has anyone experimented with one of these things?  My current Suddenlink
download speed is 953 Kilobytes/Second and 64 Kilobytes/second upload.  This
is a a lot below their stated average of 6 Megabytes/second download and 512
Kilobytes/second upload.  It may be a fixable problem but other statements
on this list suggest that SL customers in our area get significantly slower
speeds than advertised, so I'm wondering if streaming video is practical for
this area.  Or possibly DSL is better? I can't get DSL here so cannot do a
comparison.

What about 101NetLink?

Dave Thewlis

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