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FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 30 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Streaming music is a very negligible impact. We've had streaming music for 2 decades.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    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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