The number of televisions estimated that sit unused in closets.
The EPA estimates that nearly 100 million unused televisions are currently taking up precious, beautiful space. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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The bottleneck in most people's home Internet connections is not on their home network, it's the ISP connection. Even 802.11b is still fast enough to keep up with most peoples' home Internet connections with bandwidth to spare.
Where you begin to worry about wireless is (1) latency, which for buffered streaming is irrelevant, and (2) interference, which can cause the wireless connection to slow and/or drop packets.