In reply to a post by vimto_girl:

Thanks for the outdated info.

If you feel it's outdated, I suggest you take that up with the BBC

Why don't you do it yourself?

In reply to a post by vimto_girl:

Why don't you do it yourself?

Because I don't think it's outdated.

In reply to a post by vimto_girl:

The link you give confirms that the video bitrate alone is >5 Mb/s for 720p. More than 10 into 10 does not fit I'm afraid.

There's nothing like empirical data...

I just started playing "Ripper Street" in HD on our YouView box, and watched the traffic statistics accumulate on DslStats - which is reading the throughput data from the modem/router.

Before playing: throughput was around 2,000 kB/min
While playing: throughput at minimum was 30,000 kB/min, peak 45,000kB/min, average around 40,000kB/min.

It looks like the iPlayer stream ends up averaging around 38,000 kB/min ... or a hair over 5Mbps.

But it seems to be impossible to get the STB to tell me what kind of streams it has chosen for me.

Not a surprise that the empirical data matches the info provided by the developers themselves. You can see the bitrate and resolution on a browser, which again confirms.

You have been giving people an attitude in several threads of late, nothing wrong with disagreeing, but your attitude is very confrontational and likely to scare people away from daring to ask anything.

So when I get chance it should be impossible for me to stream 4 HD streams on a 20 Mbps connection, will try it out when I have a chance.

Don't trust that flash latency figure at all, in your case. <1ms on FTTC is very odd.

It's FTTP

Still odd. But your BQM is impressive.

What do you get from a ping or tracert to bbc.co.uk?