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

[Patrick Moon]

William Van Hefner,

How much are you paying for the bonded "

20MBps" which is approaching the "155 Megabits per second " of an OC-3?  I WANTS some!

BTW I have screwed up in other posts...it should always be a "M" for 
mega and I used a "m" by accident... sorry to make a confusing situation 
worse.

Hope this helps,
Patrick


see these for more info:
http://www.oempcworld.com/support/MB_vs_Mbits.htm
http://www.infobahn.com/research-information.htm
http://netbook.cs.purdue.edu/othrpags/qanda188.htm

William Van Hefner wrote:
> David,
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> The first thing you should do is call Suddenlink and schedule an
> appointment for someone to come out and test your connection. Most online
> "speed tests" are pretty unreliable. Suddenlink should be able to tell
> pretty quickly where the problem is.
>
> That being the case, I'm pretty sure that most cable modem and DSL
> customers in the area get well over 1 MBps downstream. I know that
> Sonic.Net advertises a bonded DSL service here that goes up to 20MBps
> downstream. My ADSL line at home feeds my DirecTV receiver/DVR for viewing
> their HDTV Video On Demand service, and it regularly sucks bandwidth at a
> rate of 3MBps for hours at a time. It can burst well over that though.
>
> BTW, most streaming video services do not actually show movies in "real
> time". They generally buffer the video on the receiving device for at
> least a few seconds. That way, a temporary loss of signal won't lead to an
> interruption in the picture. For movies, the delay wouldn't really be
> noticeable. It's a different story when it comes to things like news and
> sports though. Nobody wants to be 5 seconds behind everyone else that is
> watching the Superbowl.
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