Is 24mbps internet on dedicated line enough for 4k streaming?

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Nine-Tails

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Aperently its also bonded line as well.
I moved to a new apt up north mi and the best offered herebis 24mbps but my apt complex has dedicated line for each apt according to frontier. And my neighbor told me they bond two 12mbps lines to get the 24mbps.
 
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All internet is shared at some point. At best you would have connection between your house and the telco dedicated if it is DSL. Problem is DSL speed is based on how far from the telco you are so you may not get the maximum speed promised.

Things like most fiber and cable you share the bandwidth with all your neighbors between the house and the telco.

Still at the connection point it really depends how fast the connection back to the main internet connection are. It only takes a few of your neighbors using torrents to cause massive problems for everyone.

You are right on the limit of the 4k so it likely have issues at times even if you could get the full bandwidth all the time.

Still it sound like you have few other options...
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Netflix claims you need at least 25Mbps.

I don't know how dual lines work so I can't comment on that.

Other:
Most experts claim you need to be closer than 1.5X the HDTV's diagonal to see the benefit of 4K content. That's closer than SIX feet for a 48" HDTV.
 
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Netflix recommend 25Mbps for 4K.

I believe youtube 4K is 35Mbps to 70Mbps depending on framerate... but I'm not 100% sure on those figures, perhaps someone is more across this.

In *theory* that means you could probably squeeze by with Netflix 4K. Youtube would work but probably with a fair bit of buffering.

The issue is that even for Netflix, you've got no headroom there. If anyone else in your apartment is using the Internet, you'd hit buffering. Also, despite selling you "24Mbps", lots of ISPs also aren't able to deliver your full bandwidth at peak times. So it might work fine at 3am, but buffer like crazy at 8pm most days. It's also usually extremely difficult to find out what happens at peak times ahead of time. You could certainly ask the ISP sales team what sort of service-level-agreements are in place. They should be able to tell your what the minimum performance you can expect, but you can bet they won't guarantee you the full 24Mbps 100% of the time.

Do you have multiple ISP options or are you stuck with the one choice? You could perhaps try explaining your situation and negotiating an early exit clause if their service isn't able to deliver the full 24Mbps consistently. But then again, if you only have one choice it's not like an early exit clause is much help.

Unfortunately the short answer is... good question, try it and see!
I realise that's not much help though.
 
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Well i have a dedicated line which means i am not sharing my bandwith with anyone else. Also frontier is the Best option here the only other choices are a crappy cable internet with a highest 3mbps and a bunch of 6mbps and satellite Internet 15mbps with limited data usage and then theres frontiers 6mbps or 12mbps or 24mbps.
 
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All internet is shared at some point. At best you would have connection between your house and the telco dedicated if it is DSL. Problem is DSL speed is based on how far from the telco you are so you may not get the maximum speed promised.

Things like most fiber and cable you share the bandwidth with all your neighbors between the house and the telco.

Still at the connection point it really depends how fast the connection back to the main internet connection are. It only takes a few of your neighbors using torrents to cause massive problems for everyone.

You are right on the limit of the 4k so it likely have issues at times even if you could get the full bandwidth all the time.

Still it sound like you have few other options so it doesn't really matter.
 
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