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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yep - a 3Mb Internet connection is ample for smoothly streaming HD video. Latency tends to be more important than speed, when it comes to streaming. It's poor latency that'll cause constant pauses for re-buffering.
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Satellite internet suffers from that on devices with limited buffers.
In the very early days of HD streaming, when I had DSL, (ca. 2006) I would download the video rental to my XBOX and then watch it. It avoided stuttering.
Today you might get that issue sporadically on cable if everybody in the neighborhood is downloading big files at once *and* the ISP hasn't upgraded their system for a long time. That would be an ISP issue rather than a Netflix issue.
Netflix provides a website where you can test your network connection to see if the ISP is delivering proper paid-for bandwidth:
https://media.netflix.com/en/company...internet-speed
As is, Netflix and Prime should deliver nearly identical quality (both run on AWS) and be almost imperceptibly inferior to Hulu. Pretty much everybody lags behind those three with CBS and DirecTV now being noticeably worse. For now. They're taking enough flak for it.