said by Wily_One:said by Matt7:How many TVs do you have?
We have 4 TVs; sometimes all 4 are in use but not always, and that's at night. But if TV is just another IP packet, even prioritized, then yeah I better get the upgrade!
The IPTV and VoIP packets have priority within the U-verse network. So if you are watching live TV or recording then there is some impact to your overall HSIA capablity.
SD Streams take about 1.6-2.0 Mbps and each HD stream takes about 6.8-9.0 Mbps so you can see there is an impact to the overall capacity left for plain data packets. There is some good news in that U-verse uses Capped Variable Bit Rate (CVBR), variable bit rate video encoding enables HSIA to use bandwidth not being currently used by video streams.
This means that VDSL2 QoS service segmentation protects quality of VoIP and video while allowing HSIA data to burst into video bandwidth.
Dave