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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by Dylan16807 on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:24PM (#21786179)
If you can't even watch a video at DVD quality, it's not broadband in a meaningful way.
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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:50PM (#21786721)
4K only needs 10Mb.
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Re:AT&T drops out of FCC speed-test program so it can hide b... by Dylan16807 on Friday December 13, 2019 @07:20PM (#21786889)
I wouldn't be mad if the FCC standard was still 10Mb.

But I prefer it increasing the way it has been. The downlink, at least. Minimum uplink should be at least a quarter of minimum downlink, if not higher.

And I disagree that 4K only needs 10Mb. I think youtube uses about that much, and it very much does not reach the full potential of 4K. Netflix uses about 16 with HEVC, with massive amounts of server time spent optimizing every second. And they recommend your connection be 25. And if you wanted to watch a live stream of the same quality you'd need far more bandwidth to make it work.

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