I have 1000d500u fibre and I upload to crashplan Australia at about 250mbps (from NZ). Sometimes a bit faster, sometimes slower. Seems good to me.

If the TV isn't connected to the Internet then it doesn't matter because there's no way to get the private data off the TV. Another reason to disconnect your smart TV.

It doesn't handle a fast connection very well though. I tried a lot of clients but settled on Transmission (Linux) as the one that best handled my 1000/500 connection. Anything libtorrent was the slowest, too CPU hungry, and utorrented seemed to thrash the disks too much.

But if you limit the frame rate to 30 fps you'd save some CPU and get that cinematic feel.

I have a a Yamaha Aventage AVR, Anthem MCA 325 power amp and Dynaudio DM3/7 speakers, some pretty high end audio kit and it's in an acoustically treated room, and I don't think this would be worth it. I can sometimes notice a very subtle difference between a 320k mp3 and flac, but only if the recording is very good, and a recording that good is very rare today. For the few artists that I really enjoy who actually record and master their music well I'd just buy the CD.

Monitors with PWM dimmed LED backlights are the problem. Most people are sitting in front of a 180hz strobe all day. Get some PWM free monitors and enjoy fatigue free eyes. Blue light and only late at night makes it difficult to get to sleep, nothing more.

I can get around 800mbps to a US server, although this is not common but it's usually going to be contention at a router overseas that causes slowdowns, nothing inside the NZ ISPs control. And I don't know many people with caps anymore, I have used ~10TB a month and my ISP doesn't care. Lots of people still on 30/50mbps plans, but these are generally grandfathered plans. The base plan for many ISPs is 100/20 now which is about 50USD. My 1000/500 plan is 90USD. They even dug up my 60m driveway to install the fibre duct for free. Can't complain about Internet service in NZ at all now.

If you have a decent Internet connection you need hardware offload though, which you will usually lose if you flash a custom firmware.

Anything libtorrent based (like qbtorrent) is likely to bottleneck on your CPU if you have an older CPU and a fast connection. Transmission is much faster.

Yeah but they would have the connection anyway, to look at other stuff. Also when they watch Netflix they're watching something they want to see. With cable, it only does one thing, and most people have it on for hours and hours in the background because most of what is on is ads and reality bullshit. If you worked out how much cable costs for the time people spent actively watching something they have turned it on specifically to see, and excluded ads, it would change the figures by a lot.

It's not the hardware or the fundamentals of Android itself, it's that the phone manufacturers can't release a reliable device if their shareholder profits depended on it. Even my Nexus 6P has crippling bugs which Google have not/will not fix. There is not enough QA and not enough patches to fix bugs. I get my security updates every month, but bugs which have been in the bug tracker since the phones release are still not fixed.

All those reasons are why I build a gaming PC. To stay on the cutting edge, to choose and assemble the parts myself.

The data costs them nothing, but increasing the allotment is a good way to excuse putting the price up. As a non American, those prices are horrendous.

Face recognition recognises faces.