Hi, The service provider(s) pipe that takes all web traffic from my laptop to the central servers (assume youtube) remain same whether i take a 4Mbps or a 25Mbps connection from my service provider. This means that the internet connection that i take from my service provider only affects the last mile -- from my home network to my service providers first access router. Given this, would one really see a 6 times improvement in a 25Mbps connection over a 4Mbps connection? I assume that the service providers rate limit the traffic much more aggressively in a 4Mbps connection. But this would only matter if the traffic from my youtube server is greater than 4Mbps, which i suspect would be the case. The question then is that how does going for a higher BW connection from the service provider help? Glen
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Glen Kent wrote:
The question then is that how does going for a higher BW connection from the service provider help?
That is like asking if a 600 bhp car is 6 times better than a 100 bhp car. I'd say you definitely can benefit in surfing speed etc up to somewhere 5-15 megabit/s, after that it's hard to discern any difference in interactivity. For youtube alone I doubt you'll notice that much difference.unless you're watching 720p/1080p material, where you will notice that 4 megabit/s probably isn't enough. I've seen netflix 1080p stream use over 10 megabit/s in 30 second interval, so sometimes it's good to have more :P -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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