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BirdDog
Assistant Professor
9 years ago

Satellite capacity, video streaming and other meanderings

OK, did some simple math here, please correct me if I made any errors.   1. Echostar 19 has been advertised as having "up to" 220 Gbps throughput: http://spacenews.com/atlas-5-launches-echostar-19/...
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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
9 years ago

BirdDog,

 

That kinda makes me wish I would have stuck with what I had.  SMH.  

 

My folks, who live right across the street, still have Gen4, though I don't know what their speeds are.  Probably pretty good. 

 

With that said, it's going back up now.  Sub 1Mbps speeds for me are VERY rare.  I've only ever had four sub 1Mbps speed since upgrading to Gen5 at the end of March.  That one was 3rd from the bottom.  

 

And though I don't know about doing so while having the speed I just did, even when it's in the lower, single digit Mbps range I can still normally watch Youtube vids in 480p without issue.  

 

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maratsade
Distinguished Professor IV
9 years ago

"That kinda makes me wish I would have stuck with what I had.  SMH.  "

 

I'm having lots of issues with speed, but I'm still happy to have gone to Gen 5.  I keep a positive (naive???) outlook: it'll grow out of its growing pains and it'll be just fine.