• McBinary@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    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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        1 year 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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      1 year ago

      Right, but this is about setting a minimum standard for it to be classified as broadband. For an average individual 100Mbps is high speed internet.