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Originally Posted by Charles R 
I was never ever to sustain X-High with 6Mbps DSL service. There is enough overhead inherent within the line that at best you will end up with 5.4Mbps (if you are extremely lucky - typically 5.2 is great) which isn't fast enough to keep up. Best case you'll bounce into X-High 10 per cent of the time (or so).
I was never ever to sustain X-High with 6Mbps DSL service. There is enough overhead inherent within the line that at best you will end up with 5.4Mbps (if you are extremely lucky - typically 5.2 is great) which isn't fast enough to keep up. Best case you'll bounce into X-High 10 per cent of the time (or so).
This was my expectation, but I had extended arguments with someone who claimed that he was getting the 1080p encoding with 6 Mbps service (I forget who it was but he usually pops up to object whenever I claim that you need 7 Mbps
). He too was running Tomato in his router and produced graphs showing bandwidth consumption, which was almost constantly maxed out with just the occasional dip. He claimed that he was consistently seeing 1080p through some of the highest bandwidth sequences (my test standard, minutes 5-14 of Ong Bak 2, an encoder-challenging 10 solid minutes of martial arts combat in the rain). I surmised that if you can constantly sustain 6 Mbps throughput to your Netflix server it's possible that it will be sufficient.
