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by rhino369 3690 days ago
Eh, netflix maxes out content at a fraction your comcast speed. Doesn't really matter if Netflix is going 50mbps or 100mpbs. Making netflix work is important, but I'd be pretty disappointed if my ISP was giving me 20mpbs, even though Netflix would never need that much.
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It matters if you've more than one Netflix stream running at the same time. It will matter even more once Netflix starts doing VR ;-)
And, having your pipe overloaded by things other than Netflix. I have two kids watching Youtube on pads and a wife watching TV in another room. With my fake Uverse (DSL) the TV uses the internet connection so, we are often streaming four different videos at the same time.
Is that true even for 4K content (of which there is little, but still)?
Netflix recommends 25Mbit or higher for 4k content (Ultra HD).

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306