I am confused, as the link appears to say the opposite.
> Conclusion:
>The majority of 4K movies (75%) I tested have bitrates over 100 Mbps and many seconds where bitrates spiked over 100 Mbps. Some have 100s of seconds where bitrate spikes over 100 Mbps, and will most certainly cause problems if played with bandwidths less than 100 Mbps on devices that don't buffer well such as the LG TV or Roku TV. To make sure you get the best experience without any buffering or transcoding on such devices, you need to make sure you have a bandwidth that exceeds at least 150 Mbps to play most 4K movies properly. Ideally, it should be higher than 200 Mbps.
The highest average bandwidth shown was 73 mbps. You probably need 150mbps to comfortably play 1 4k move, but once you are looking at the effect 4k movies have on higher bandwidths, average bandwidth becomes more relevant. You could pretty easily stream 10 4k movies over a 1gbps channel since the odds that all of them will be over 100mbps at the same time is low (and even if it happens briefly, it will be handled by buffering).
> certainly cause problems if played with bandwidths less than 100 Mbps on devices that don't buffer well such as the LG TV or Roku TV
"If" is doing some heavy lifting there.
The linked post shows that the average bitrate of every sampled 4k movie was less than 75 Mbps. The author even bolded "on devices that don't buffer well such as the LG TV or Roku TV"
I have Jellyfin setup and there are times when 3ppl would watch something. My entire collection is the highest quality I can find on the net so normally a movie would be around 80-100GB.
Plus I have a service which downloads stuff for the archive team so that’s always doing some network traffic.
There is also a CI gitlab worker and that is also always doing some build with docker images from scratch.
I just wish more than 1Gbps was something that was offered and I can upgrade but so far I’m limited by my ISP with no way to upgrade. Inside my network I have 10Gbps and I have never hit that limit. It was expensive and I needed it for a now deprecated servicing.
> Conclusion:
>The majority of 4K movies (75%) I tested have bitrates over 100 Mbps and many seconds where bitrates spiked over 100 Mbps. Some have 100s of seconds where bitrate spikes over 100 Mbps, and will most certainly cause problems if played with bandwidths less than 100 Mbps on devices that don't buffer well such as the LG TV or Roku TV. To make sure you get the best experience without any buffering or transcoding on such devices, you need to make sure you have a bandwidth that exceeds at least 150 Mbps to play most 4K movies properly. Ideally, it should be higher than 200 Mbps.