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The average household recommendation is around 10 Mbps and 25 Mbps, even if you are streaming often. If you are a heavy data user you may want more, but even then speeds much higher often add little to the user experience.

Live internet streaming requires a form of source media (e.g. a video camera, an audio interface, screen capture software), an encoder to digitize the content, a media publisher, and a content delivery network to distribute and deliver the content.

Netflix recommends a minimum Internet connection speed of 500kbps if you want to stream movies. If you checked a dozen different video streaming information Web sites, you'd probably get 12 different suggestions as to how fast your Internet download speed needs to be to watch high definition (HD) video.