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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Why would you need TV if you have a 100mbps connection?
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We were joking at work about live-streaming torrents...which led to my question above - other than illegally obtaining content (which I'm not judging, I partake, that's simply what its considered legally right now), I'm not sure how the average or even power user is going to utilize a 100 megabit pipe, so I'm looking for ideas. (and even when using torrents, on a good torrent with existing connections you can already typically pull them down in real time, and on a poor torrent, having more bandwidth isn't going to help)
I run the excellent PRTG monitoring software for my router at home, and even on peak days, when working from home, with my online backups running in the background, a single long-running torrent, RDP and VPN'ed into multiple sites, email, web surfing, and some streaming radio, my utilization was pretty much consistently 5 megabits per second.
If say, I had netflix, and my wife was home, and we had VOIP, and she was also video Skyping with her friends, I'd reasonably say let's triple that 5 megabits..that takes me to 15 megabits...which still leaves enough headroom to stream two uncompressed bluray videos and have a tiny bit of headroom under 100 megabits left to play with.
So while 100 megabits+ is tantalizing, the pragmatic side of me is having a really hard time seeing the benefit when my 15 megabit pipe runs on average at less than 100% utilization.