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

[Dave Thewlis]

Tina tells me that she is getting 6 mega_bits_ a second, not bytes. 

So it sounds as though you are correct and Suddenlink is really offering 
megabits rather than megabytes even though they flatly tell you 
megabytes when you ask.  Well, told me, at any rate.

So whether the Roku box requires 1.2 megabits a second or megabytes a 
second, the Suddenlink speed is not high enough.  Which Larry Goldberg's 
experience would seem to confirm.

Sorry for putting everyone through this.

Dave


Patrick Moon wrote:
> I can totally believe the tech got it wrong, you are right that it is 
> easy to confuse them.  I'm still confused though, where did Tina say 
> megabytes? The part I quoted was "mb" which I would read as megabits.
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick
> Dave Thewlis wrote:
>> ...
>>>
>>> same idea with Kilo.
>> I understand; generally people are sloppy about the abbreviations and 
>> it causes endless confusion.  However I asked very explicitly about 
>> megabytes versus megabits and the tech person on the phone assured me 
>> it was megabytes.  Also, Tina Nerat reports downloads of about 6 
>> megabytes/second in Cutten.  So I'm pretty sure they mean MegaBytes.
>> ...
>>
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