Wii U has no ethernet port

[Cobretti2]

runqvist said:

Cobretti2 said:

runqvist said:

Because it is 2012 now. I have 350mbps connection now and pretty soon there is an option for faster connections here.

They are only building a 100mbit to home user network in my country right now. And it will be completed in 5 years time. Jus tintime for the gen after next lol.

Point being I still won't see those magical 350mbps connection you have.

Sucks for you. 350mbps is nothing magical, but early next year our apartment gets a better connection option. 1gb connection might be magical for me. :)

 

You are missing the point. Most people in the world don't have your speed.

Also as other have mentioned data caps. When broadband first come out they existed. Then they vanished and now they are returning as ISPs can see extra value in selling you more blocks of data if you need them. It is to weed out the pirates and also so they can establish their own streaming services or via partnerships that offer free data (as in does not count towards your cap) from those sites, again to make more moeny from you.

Also a BlueRay disc video bitrate is 40.0Mbps MAX (with data transfer of 54Mbps, if at 1.5x read speed, otherwise 36Mbps). However this is for crappy BluRays that are still encoded in MPEG2 (which has been around since dvd days).

MPEG4 1080p compressed streams can be achieved with a bitrate of 4-8Mbps and still look great. If anyone is going to stream things to you it will most likely be in MPEG4 and not MPEG2.