Kodi (Bluemoon Build)

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

Maybe, have a mate whose speed is around 6m been fines its when it drops below 5m where there starts the problem. Anyhow most broadband deals are usually well higher than 6m

An fair enough. You're right though; most broadband deals these days you can comfortably get 30mbps + easily without spending too much :)

 

[TCIB]

Tbh the prudent move here is look well past 6Mbps as @aguerrrroooooooooooo notes

A good example is NBC sports doing 1080p @ 8Mbps, i is delivered in hds packets which allows for variable bitrate so it WILL spike some points at say 1.7MB/s.
If your line is close to it's limit with that you are going to have a bad viewing experience. As noted though most people can get 30 now with out to much hassle or cost.

You could not stream a 720p film from my servers with that speed, an untouched 720p x264 at about 6GB will run at about 900KB/s spiking to 2.5MB/s.
Public feeds are not that high quality but they will be in a couple of years, i think sky 30Mbps fibre would be the minimum now for anyone who streams and has 2-5 devices connected.

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

Tbh the prudent move here is look well past 6Mbps as @aguerrrroooooooooooo notes

A good example is NBC sports doing 1080p @ 8Mbps, i is delivered in hds packets which allows for variable bitrate so it WILL spike some points at say 1.7MB/s.
If your line is close to it's limit with that you are going to have a bad viewing experience. As noted though most people can get 30 now with out to much hassle or cost.

You could not stream a 720p film from my servers with that speed, an untouched 720p x264 at about 6GB will run at about 900KB/s spiking to 2.5MB/s.
Public feeds are not that high quality but they will be in a couple of years, i think sky 30Mbps fibre would be the minimum now for anyone who streams and has 2-5 devices connected.

A question for you TC, is cable broadband (someone like virgin) more capable than just regular fibre? (Someone like BT)

:)

 

[TCIB]

It depends, in theory virgins is better as it is a dedicated fibre net with a short coax to the home. BT need to run a copper line to your house from the green box.
At peak times virgins fibre is supposed to suffer a little more but the working reality is if you want to download x film at 5pm, You will be completing the file at the same time roughly. That is with the 60Mbps package to, not 100,200,300.

I don't upload much anymore but if i do it is always virgin lines that complete first then BT then sky and talk talk etc.
Of course how you setup your torrent client and other factors come into but in the vast majority this is what i see in the anatomy of torrent swarms on private trackers.

Blueyonder/Nynex etc put the hard work in and virgin have the best scope for upgrading as it stands.

 

[Danamy]

Take it from me (someone who's just switched from BT to Virgin in the last month) BT doesn't come close to Virgin when it comes to streaming and d/loading.

I'm even able to stream 4K to my TV with no buffering now i'm with Virgin <3

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

Take it from me (someone who's just switched from BT to Virgin in the last month) BT doesn't come close to Virgin when it comes to streaming and d/loading.

I'm even able to stream 4K to my TV with no buffering now i'm with Virgin <3

It depends, in theory virgins is better as it is a dedicated fibre net with a short coax to the home. BT need to run a copper line to your house from the green box.
At peak times virgins fibre is supposed to suffer a little more but the working reality is if you want to download x film at 5pm, You will be completing the file at the same time roughly. That is with the 60Mbps package to, not 100,200,300.

I don't upload much anymore but if i do it is always virgin lines that complete first then BT then sky and talk talk etc.
Of course how you setup your torrent client and other factors come into but in the vast majority this is what i see in the anatomy of torrent swarms on private trackers.

Blueyonder/Nynex etc put the hard work in and virgin have the best scope for upgrading as it stands.

Thanks for the insight lads :)

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Honestly 6mbps might be cutting it fine. Sports streams are getting higher and higher quality and I think you should be looking at 15mbps + minimum really. Virgin media do some really decent deals and come highly recommended by TCIB who knows his stuff :)

In that case I might keep the broadband with sky and upgrade to fibre with them. An independent online test claimed I should get between 23-38 mbs, not as fast as Sky claim but sounds like it should be sufficient.

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

In that case I might keep the broadband with sky and upgrade to fibre with them. An independent online test claimed I should get between 23-38 mbs, not as fast as Sky claim but sounds like it should be sufficient.

Yeah 23 would be enough to get by if there's not too many devices connected mate, however if you have a family and a few devices connected that might not be quite enough :)

 

[Rammy Blue]

Yeah 23 would be enough to get by if there's not too many devices connected mate, however if you have a family and a few devices connected that might not be quite enough :)

I can back that one up, I have 30odd mb sky fibre and it's not enough when I've got the kids on Xbox, iPads, laptops etc.

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

Take your pick here lads: http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/compare-broadband/index.html

:)