{"id":93779,"date":"2016-06-06T11:59:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T09:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93779"},"modified":"2016-06-07T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:43:01","slug":"check-if-your-internet-is-fast-enough-to-stream-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/93779-check-if-your-internet-is-fast-enough-to-stream-netflix","title":{"rendered":"Check if your Internet is fast enough to stream Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix recently launched <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">fast.com<\/a>, <\/strong>a website that helps users test the speed of their broadband connection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re experiencing streaming issues, Fast.com allows you to check the download speeds you\u2019re getting from your Internet service provider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing Netflix servers, Fast.com works like other tools including speedtest.net, and the results should be similar in most cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can then compare your results with the internet connection speed recommendations on Netflix&#8217;s official <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/help.netflix.com\/en\/node\/306\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>0.5 Megabits per second<\/strong> &#8211; Required broadband connection speed<\/li>\n<li><strong>1.5 Megabits per second<\/strong> &#8211; Recommended broadband connection speed<\/li>\n<li><strong>3.0 Megabits per second<\/strong> &#8211; Recommended for SD quality<\/li>\n<li><strong>5.0 Megabits per second<\/strong> &#8211; Recommended for <a href=\"https:\/\/help.netflix.com\/en\/node\/13844\">HD<\/a> quality<\/li>\n<li><strong>25 Megabits per second<\/strong> &#8211; Recommended for <a href=\"https:\/\/help.netflix.com\/en\/node\/13444\">Ultra HD<\/a> quality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome gaming and tech deals\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93623-awesome-gaming-and-tech-deals.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome gaming and tech deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia plan to use GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 desktop cards in gaming laptops\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/93699-nvidia-plan-to-use-geforce-gtx-1080-and-gtx-1070-desktop-cards-in-gaming-laptops.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia plan to use GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 desktop cards in gaming laptops<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Meet one of South Africa\u2019s premier Hearthstone players \u2013 Francois \u201cFafa\u201d Mouton\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90365-meet-one-of-south-africas-premier-hearthstone-players-francois-fafa-mouton.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Meet one of South Africa\u2019s premier Hearthstone players \u2013 Francois \u201cFafa\u201d Mouton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check whether your internet is fast enough to stream Netflix and other services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":88021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812,9],"tags":[19105,2378,10751,17887,15401],"class_list":["post-93779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-entertainment","tag-fast-com","tag-internet","tag-netflix","tag-speed","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93845,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93779\/revisions\/93845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}