alt Hacker News10Gbps is enough bandwidth for 500 concurrent Netflix streams in 4K/UHD (15Mbps) AND 500 concurrent video calls (4Mbps).
Home users don’t need more bandwidth to improve their internet experiences, they need lower latency, less congestion and less loss.
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/prepare-net...
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kobalsky • yesterday at 8:42 PM
> Netflix streams in 4K/UHD (15Mbps)
proper 4k, like the one you watch from a blu-ray, will have peaks of 150mbps.
the 4k we see on streaming services is awfully overcompressed.
and yeah, you can see the difference, it's day and night.
denkmoon • yesterday at 10:47 PM
4k 15mbps is arse. Try 100mbps and you’re getting close to decent quality.
Home users only do video calls and watch Netflix?
More and more regular people are getting network storage appliances. More and more people have laptops with SSDs that can write at 4 or 5 GB/s. Why shouldn't they get to use all of it?