[BC] Netflix bandwidth requirements?

[Alex Hartman]

Netflix "auto-tunes" the bandwidth you have to fit. It drops the
quality obviously. I've got a 50Mbit cable modem, having 2 PCs, a PS3
and a roku running at the same time i chew about 6Mbit/s. The PS3 is
the only one running HD content however. If i set the Roku to do HD as
well, it jumps upwards of 15Mbit.

I've run this on a 12Mbit DSL line as well with no problems, just a
little longer delay on the buffering.

Lowest I've seen Netflix work was with a 1.2Mbit DSL line, average
quality. 600k will work, but it's unwatchable IMO.

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Alex Hartman

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Andy Soule <andysoule at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ed, a while back at another location I had:
>
> Roku box and a Playstation watching 2 different netflix programs
> 2 PC's active, one doing email, and one watching youtube things.
> 1 vonage box.
>
> With the next to bottom Time Warner service that had about 350-400kbps
> for $29.95, the all but the ROKU tended to lag and break up, an the
> phone was unusable if everything else was going.
>
> I upgraded to the $39.95 level which bumped it up to 800 or better,
> and everything worked well.  There was occasional lag on the
> playstation but only when first starting a show, and easy to live
> with.  Since I moved the same price is getting 1200+, but I don't have
> half the stuff online.
>
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Edwin Bukont <ebukont at msn.com> wrote:
>> Trying to cut the cord on Comcast Cable TV.  Between TV and Internet, its $145/mo which is just nuts.  Most of what we watch isnt the local TV anyhow, that one should not have to pay for since its OTA, yet news often tends to be more timely on the phone or Internet anyway, except on weekends.
>>
>> If we get rid of 'cable' TV, we could keep the Internet and use Netflix.  The question then is,,does anyone know the typical BW requirements for movies on NetFlix?  Don't want to hit that 250GB/mo limit on downloading and pay more!
>>
>> What has been the experience of the braintrust using Netflix and VoIP phones via satellite?  Looking at that as an alternative also.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Edwin Bukont CTS, CSRE/DRB, CBNT
>> V- 240.417.2475 (DC/Baltimore)
>> V- 615-357-7390 (Nashville)
>>