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

[Patrick Moon]

Currently they are having other issues on their network. In the evening
some people are seeing a slowdown. We've been talking for months with
them and hopefully the issue will be mostly resolved at the end of Feb.

Cheers,
Patrick Moon
Biztech

Tina Nerat wrote:
>
> 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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> [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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