Wonder when being told faster is better will actually be true? Seems to me here that getting a faster speed makes little if any difference in practice. Although it may do if you have lots of people using it at the same time.
Another con?
Mar 08, 2018
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You want a decent speed if you want "live" TV over internet. If you just want netflix or VoD then a lower speed will probably be OK.
Variability is a problem with live stuff as too much buffering means its not live. Its what the various flavours of RTSP were invented for and they are a right pain in the real world as you can't get reserved bandwidth on a net neutral internet.
I've had that for ages here. And had two speed increases since. Now 56.4 Mbps. But so much seems to be slow at 'the other end'.
But we've never had net neutrality here! A few years back when exchange backhaul was both expensive and sometimes scarce many ISPs were doing deep packet inspection and traffic shaping to slow things like peer-to-peer and usenet for the benefit of the paying customers in the entertainment industry.
Well you get what you pay for and you generally pay nothing for the remote server.
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