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Usenet is like 16+ MB/s

What is the point of this?

Torrent recall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall) is much higher than Usenet, even pay service which I used to have. Also, 5 MB/s down is more or less saturating my connection. I have no use for 16 MB/s down.

I don't think most people are aware of what can be done with a good usenet provider and sickbeard. Perhaps it's for the best.

One advantage is to instantly stream video files for most torrents. If someone else on put.io downloaded a given torrent before you, it's available for streaming in mp4 immediately (and that's the case for most torrents I've added to put.io)

That is only going to work for a lower quality feed though. Even the best streams from netflix are not as good as an actual 720p high bitrate video. You would need to be able to stream at a consistent 6 mb/s minimum to even start to stream at even 720. If you want a low quality video like what you are talking about you can literally download it in like 1 minute at 16 mb/s so there is really very little reason to stream at all.

5 MB/s is 40 Mb/s, so put.io is fine for both 720p and 1080p instant streaming on my connection.

so, you have like a 128 Mb/s connection or something?..

Would it be that strange for HN folks? I'd imagine people from this community would be willing to get the best, or at least the fastest connection available.

(I think I'm an exception, I have the lowest available option from my ISP, 40MBit)

I think you meant Mb with a small b.

I guess they would, but this is a matter of providing that speed. I don't think 128+ Mb/s is very common, usually caps around 100 Mb/s in a lot of areas.

I don't think the capitalization of b matters as I wrote the full word "Bit" instead of just "B" (for Byte).

Anyways, my ISP has a 240Mbit plan.. and this is rather small city and Europe (not north or west either). I guess I just assumed SF (for example) would have even better options. Looking at other major ISPs around shows 100, 2x150 and 250 as top speeds.

Fast internet is not uncommon in The Netherlands. UPC[1] have 50, 120 and 200 Mb/s internet connections.

[1]: http://www.upc.nl/internet/abonnementen/

Impressive speeds. You usually don't see anything over 100 Mb/s here in Denmark.

In Finland:

DNA: http://www.dna.fi/uberkaista 350Mbit/s.

Sonera: http://www.sonera.fi/tutustu+ja+osta/nettiyhteydet/kodin+laa... 1Gbit/s.

I am supposed to have 150 but speedtest.net gives me about 160. I am in New Orleans

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