Broadband Speeds

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Looks like less than 16 Mbps provides 100% Netflix quality, like UT has been telling us.
But unlike tw, he won't thumb his nose chanting nah nah told you so.

Had you read what I wrote rather than read with a snarky attitude, then you knew 2 mps was more than sufficient for TV. Have been saying so for a long time. Rochester Telephone was doing a Netflix type connection back in the late 1980s. Your numbers only confirm what I wrote. HDTV on 5 mps would cost about $10 per month - if free market competition existed in the last mile. Cheapest internet is now at or exceeding $50 per month - in the US.

One attack on net neutrality was to subvert all competition back in 2002. Last of the competition is gone or not taking any new business. So internet/cable/phone rates are rising significantly. $10 per month for 5 mps could be available and profitable if free market competition was not subverted. CLECs are almost all gone.

Problem with satellite is not data rates. Problem is latency.