Wildblue went live in 2005, and then, 512kbps download was a decent speed; but Youtube came online by February 2005. By December of 2008, Youtube was broadcasting HD videos....as they noted,
This video is in full 720p and tests the YouTube's new HD function, so be sure to Watch in HD!
Here are two of these videos, and the first one streams around 1628 kbps, which means it would buffer if watched via 512kbps download speed. IIRC, Wildblue had a 1.5mbps plan, but even some buffering would have been experienced on HD videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhAhgwiCAWo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgNvS-NaeIE
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