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Comment by samstave | Hacker News Reader

You're on FIOS and you're getting 3-4MB/s and you're feeling lucky?

How sad.

It's higher than Google Fiber's average speed per the article. Netflix doesn't saturate connections, it doesn't take that much to stream an HD movie. They also don't stream "Super HD" to browsers which is the only way to get a higher bitrate than that.

Just because someone has a 15Mbps connection doesn't mean Netflix will eat it all up - Netflix will use the minimum bandwidth needed to stream the quality of video being watched. Sounds like it is working great in this case.

Are we assuming one Netflix stream requires the full pipe?

I'm on FIOS; while the kids are watching Netflix in the living room, the wife is watching Netflix in the bedroom, and I'm playing a multiplayer game with no lag on the desktop. Seems everything works sharing the pipe just fine.

He only has 15 Mbit service. He's actually getting ~2x what he's paying for.

3Mbps is 0.20x (of 15Mbps) what he is paying for.

Bits != Bytes.

Mbps == Megabits/sec

MBps == Megabytes/sec

>I'm on Verizon FiOS in Pennsylvania, with the standard residential 15/5 service, it's 10:44PM, and Netflix is streaming at a steady 3-4Mb/s. I guess I'm lucky?

He wrote bits, he's only using a 5th of his pipe.

Corroborated by the png he linked.

dangrossman said Mb/s samstave mistakenly read that as MB/s

Yeah, I thought he was referring to his whole connection...

And while his link is 15/5 -- I still thin thats slow for FiOS -- but I had misread his comment..... I may have also been drinking.

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