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by eldod 3784 days ago
Actually as the article mentions, most broadcasters today are using adaptive bitrate formats like HLS and DASH, that are solving this issue by serving you a bitrate that is low enough for you to handle.

Today the major broacasters often have 6 or 7 different qualities, going from 300kbps up to 4000Mbps for HD.