[142134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugeniu Patrascu)
Sat Jun 18 09:28:50 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110612194800.GB8003@hiwaay.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:28:42 +0300
From: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 22:48, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net> said:
>> I need 100Mbs at home because I want to see a streamed movie NOW, not
>> in a month because someone considers broadband a luxury :)
>> Pretty simple usage scenario I might say.
>
> The top profile for Blu-Ray is 36 megabits per second, and that is
> not used on most titles. =A0Over-the-air HDTV is 19 megabits or less.
> Cable HD channels are often only 12-15 megabits per second. =A0OTA and
> cable HD is typically MPEG2, and MPEG4 can reach similar quality in half
> the bandwidth, which means TV quality HD can be 6-10 megabits per
> second.
Even though, my point stands. I don't want to wait forever for stuff
to load just because a dialup should be enough for browsing :)
