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by tgsovlerkhgsel
1389 days ago
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> which, at times, can easily saturate a 1Gb connection. The only thing that can saturate 1 Gb in practice in my experience are large downloads. Video conferencing, streaming etc. uses well below 100 Mbps (even 4k Netflix seems to be 25 Mbit/s). You'd need dozens of such applications running at the same time to come even close to saturating Gbit. This may change over time, but right now, there is very little need for going beyond 1 Gbps for households. And honestly, I think the change will take a long while, because 4k is still not ubiquitous, anything higher than that isn't much of a thing, and even the next step after 4k (assuming it needs 4x the bandwidth) will still be easily handled by a Gbit line even for large households. A 100 GB game download taking 14 minutes with a saturated line is not going to be a reason for most people to pay for faster hardware all along the path (router, cabling, NICs, ...). |
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Netflix's help page says 4K uses "up to" 7GB/hour, or a little less than 16Mbps:
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/87