What the minimum speed for high speed data to be usable still without noticing it much ?

[pcslookout]

I know ping is important too.

This is for 4g lte and 5g data.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Define 'usable' and 'without noticing it much'?

 

[pcslookout]

Define 'usable' and 'without noticing it much'?

Surfing the internet, email, and music streaming

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Surfing the internet, email, and music streaming

I'm still confused, are you asking how much speed a given connection needs before the user will 'notice' that it's dog shit? Even like 100mbps is mostly okay if you're not trying to ftp/scp stuff, 4k Netflix only uses 15, plenty of overhead.

From my personal experience, phone experience has far more to do with reception than with specific speeds. 5g with 10% reception will always be terrible.

 

[pcslookout]

I'm still confused, are you asking how much speed a given connection needs before the user will 'notice' that it's dog shit? Even like 100mbps is mostly okay if you're not trying to ftp/scp stuff, 4k Netflix only uses 15, plenty of overhead.

From my personal experience, phone experience has far more to do with reception than with specific speeds. 5g with 10% reception will always be terrible.

Yes but on 4g lte and 5g data. Cellular.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Yes but on 4g lte and 5g data. Cellular.

... This is on 4g/5g. Aside from lost packets, there's no difference.

 

[MrSquished]

1.2 jigawatts

 

[WelshBloke]

Surfing the internet, email, and music streaming

I mean you could do all that on 20Mbps and it would be fine.

 

[KMFJD]

20Mbps is min, this winter i was stuck with 10Mbps for a couple of months until the doubled it and it was painful

 

[sdifox]

3G is good enough for that. Problem is usually latency, not bandwidth.

 

[SKORPI0]

Fast enough for me on my Samsung 23 Ultra, via Google-Fi 5G network.

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[BurnItDwn]

streaming audio: 48kbit garbage quality mono.
surfing web 9600 baud
emails 300 baud

so I think a minimum of around 56kbit for bare bones.

 

[nakedfrog]

You're gonna need about tree fiddy.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Honestly, I'm on the lowest tier fibre internet package so I could pay the minimum for my internet. 20 mbps down 15 up, and from a day to day usage I don't really notice a difference. For torrents or any other type of download I tend to set and forget and come back to it later, so I'm not really watching the speed and watiing.

Where I really saw a difference is when I had to restore a backup to my web server. Uploading that backup at 15mbps vs the 30mbps I had before was quite noticeable since I was down the entire time it was uploading so was watching the transfer closely.

I don't really do any streaming as I prefer to download and have a local copy. I imagine I won't be streaming HD on this connection.

 

[JEDI]

I know ping is important too.

This is for 4g lte and 5g data.

256k speed is the minimum for me.

Mint mobile has unlimited 128k after you used up your 4g/5g allotment.

128k can do 1 page at a time adequately.
If you open a 2nd browser tab, both time out.

256k I can open 2 and maybe 3 tabs at once.
But can't find such a service

 

[pete6032]

25 mbps. Your cellular data latency will never be as good as on wifi unless you live right next to a tower.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

As others have said somewhere around 20-25mbs.
A pure wireless solution will have more latency and likely will be throttled when streaming video.

 

[sdifox]

Honestly, I'm on the lowest tier fibre internet package so I could pay the minimum for my internet. 20 mbps down 15 up, and from a day to day usage I don't really notice a difference. For torrents or any other type of download I tend to set and forget and come back to it later, so I'm not really watching the speed and watiing.

Where I really saw a difference is when I had to restore a backup to my web server. Uploading that backup at 15mbps vs the 30mbps I had before was quite noticeable since I was down the entire time it was uploading so was watching the transfer closely.

I don't really do any streaming as I prefer to download and have a local copy. I imagine I won't be streaming HD on this connection.

Op is talking mobile, or do you drag a long fiber everywhere you go?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Oh in that case, I can do with like 1mbps if that. Data caps kind of make mobile data useless for anything major that I'd normally use my home internet for.

 

[NutBucket]

It's faster at night but honestly this has been more than sufficient for what I do...plus its only $25 a month