[quackerhacker]

Well, I'm actually outside of the LTE area, so I ran my test on 4G HSPA+.

The image for the speed test was to see if they throttled at the end of the month.

Just to be clear...don't try this on a supposedly Unlimited iphone data plan, or straight talk unlimited...doesn't work lol.

[delinka]

I'm not sure what any of this has to do with the math. You claim 128GB over a 50Mb connection. That's less than six hours of constant streaming. Unless you want to qualify it with "during the times AT&T actually provided reliable service," your numbers seem off. A lot.

[quackerhacker]

Maybe I wasn't clear (sorry). At the end of my testing after using 128GB (end of the month), I did the speed test to check if I was throttled.

And just because my ipad was capable of that high DL speed, my hosting server that I was constantly streaming HD movies from, isn't capable of that upload throughput (50Mbps uploading).

[cmsmith]

You're assuming that streaming video can provide data at the same rate as speedtest. In reality those numbers are nowhere close, and don't reflect the reliability of AT&T's service.

[delinka]

I'm not assuming anything. I'm asking for clarity.

[ricardobeat]

You'll have a hard time finding a 50mbit stream on the internet...

[nwh]

Eh? I'm regularly pushing several times that out of my $5 VPS.

[ricardobeat]

In a single video stream? 1080p uses 10mbps max. Are you japanese or do you have 4k/8k[1] equipment from the future? :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high_definition_televisio...

[nwh]

No, but the topic was network testing more than anything realistic. I missed the point, essentially. YouTube does have some 4K video though, which probably does hit that sort of bitrate.

[shawnz]

10 Mbps is a good estimate considering modern video codecs, but it's not the upper bound. 1080p video at 32bpp and 60 fps could use as much as 3 Gbps, depending on the compression.

[quackerhacker]

I won't doubt you, but HEY if you could send a link, I could use a VPS that has that kinda of pipeline for that price :)

[nwh]

https://www.digitalocean.com/

SSDTWEET gets you $10 of account credit.