[RTC List] Broadband speeds and stability for streaming video?

[Mike]

The issue here really is that you're trying to solicit technical support 
from people who can't help you. It matters not what your neighbor 
thinks, nor what random list participants think or stories anyone has to 
circulate to you. You need to follow up personally to see if your issue 
is you, or if there really is a 'system' issue that your provider knows 
about and is working on. Without asking this authority, I'm afraid all 
you're doing to guessing.



Dave Thewlis wrote:
> Tina tells me that she is getting 6 mega_bits_ a second, not bytes. 
>
> So it sounds as though you are correct and Suddenlink is really 
> offering megabits rather than megabytes even though they flatly tell 
> you megabytes when you ask.  Well, told me, at any rate.
>
> So whether the Roku box requires 1.2 megabits a second or megabytes a 
> second, the Suddenlink speed is not high enough.  Which Larry 
> Goldberg's experience would seem to confirm.
>
> Sorry for putting everyone through this.
>
> Dave
>
>
> Patrick Moon wrote:
>> I can totally believe the tech got it wrong, you are right that it is 
>> easy to confuse them.  I'm still confused though, where did Tina say 
>> megabytes? The part I quoted was "mb" which I would read as megabits.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Patrick
>> Dave Thewlis wrote:
>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> same idea with Kilo.
>>> I understand; generally people are sloppy about the abbreviations 
>>> and it causes endless confusion.  However I asked very explicitly 
>>> about megabytes versus megabits and the tech person on the phone 
>>> assured me it was megabytes.  Also, Tina Nerat reports downloads of 
>>> about 6 megabytes/second in Cutten.  So I'm pretty sure they mean 
>>> MegaBytes.
>>> ...
>>>
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