http://blog.erikphansen.com/the-many-error-messages-of-mlb-tv The reward of a thing well done... Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:05:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.erikphansen.com/the-many-error-messages-of-mlb-tv/comment-page-1#comment-1056 Why Pay For More? Thu, 07 Oct 2010 18:41:12 +0000 http://blog.erikphansen.com/?p=446#comment-1056 <p>[...] I’m worried that Comcast is going to somehow figure out I’m getting these kinds of speeds when I’m only paying for ~50% of this kind of performance. Why should I actually pay for the 20Mbps or 30Mbps or 50Mbps level when I’m already getting this? What really gets me is that I almost never get to take full advantage of these speeds. iTunes rarely serves up movies at 2+MB/s. It’s usually around 500KB/s¹. The other day even YouTube wasn’t able to serve up low-res videos fast enough to keep them from stopping to buffer. And don’t even get me started on MLB.tv. [...]</p> [...] I’m worried that Comcast is going to somehow figure out I’m getting these kinds of speeds when I’m only paying for ~50% of this kind of performance. Why should I actually pay for the 20Mbps or 30Mbps or 50Mbps level when I’m already getting this? What really gets me is that I almost never get to take full advantage of these speeds. iTunes rarely serves up movies at 2+MB/s. It’s usually around 500KB/s¹. The other day even YouTube wasn’t able to serve up low-res videos fast enough to keep them from stopping to buffer. And don’t even get me started on MLB.tv. [...]

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