At 02:16 PM 7/15/2014, Joly MacFie wrote:

And, in my experience, one needs around double or more of the listed bandwidth for a robust streaming connection.

This is only true if the connection is of poor quality and dropped packets lead to regular 50% cuts in the data rate. Most users (and the FCC!) do not understand that, due to the Van Jacobson AIMD algorithm, quality matters far more than quantity when a service is delivered via TCP. --Brett Glass