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I believe you are still getting the numbers wrong.

There's no way Google Fiber only hits 2.55 Mbps consistently. That's slower than the slowest speed advertised by crappy ATT DSL that would be barely be fast enough to watch Netflix at all.

Regarding the mobile speeds, 700 KBps sounds about right for someone on a 3G (LTE or HSPA (T-Mobile)) connection. I just did a test right now, and I get about 900 KBps

Also, regarding your last point, most people probably at least have 802.11g by now, which maxes at 54 Mbps, waaay above 2.55 Mbps.




Lots of content on netflix isn't encoded in hd which means the average stream rate includes many streams that can't go above 1.xMbps. And their top stream rate for hd last time i checked was something like 6Mbps - clearly ruling out anyones average stream from netflix being 2MBps.




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