4K can easily be 25Mbits sustained, so add in buffering and it can go much higher.
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Joe Novak <[email protected]> wrote: > I finally got a chance to take a picture of the behavior I am talking > about.. I played with throttling the TV's IP address while I was streaming a > 4K program. The first burst is the stream starting, and you can see it as it > continues. Above 25-30mbit you get to the point where the connection bursts > data in instead of sustained usage with a TV attempting to stream in 4K. > This trend is fairly consistent from the view of the Mikrotik. > > http://i.imgur.com/EeCta4H.png > > My connection is the DOCSIS 3.1 Gigabit offering. > http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5828332106 > > Netflix instantly adjusted to whatever speed was available as soon as I > changed the queue in the mikrotik.. using a simple queue / type: > default-small. This was looking at the WAN facing port of my mikrotik CHR > VM. I was shaping the TV's local address. > > >
