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Is this for the entirety of Europe? Because I imagine we're not having any issues with this in Finland.
Such a ridiculous and pointless thing to do by the EU. Especially since all the apps drop the quality automatically anyway if the connection is slow.
Interesting counterpoint to the "broadband is so much better in Europe" trope. Unless of course we are under strain here in the US as well....
Interesting counterpoint to the "broadband is so much better in Europe" trope. Unless of course we are under strain here in the US as well....
The US response has so far been fairly muted, with a few notable local exceptions. There are a lot more people stuck at home in Europe. In practice, though, at least in Ireland there's been little obvious problem, though you can definitely see an increase: https://www.inex.ie/ixp/statistics/ixp
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Moving from Sweden to the US (Florida) I can't say I've noticed much of a difference in connectivity. 100, 200, 300 & 1000MBps is readily available in both places but usually around at 3x the price in the US. Rural America seems to be an entirely different story.
15M down / 768k up checking in from rural america. I have to stop my camera on video conferences if i want to talk.
Just checked, and at the address I left in Sweden I could have gotten a 1.2GBps for ~$60/mo, almost what I pay for 100MBps here...
Interesting counterpoint to the "broadband is so much better in Europe" trope. Unless of course we are under strain here in the US as well....
Makes you think, how much further we could stretch things if we were all using the Nims/C/C++ of the world instead of the Ruby's. Please don't immediately flame, I'm just saying objectively, we could stretch hardware out much further. What do you guys think about this?
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What if it's still 4k with reduced bit rate ? It's not like netflix 4k looks good anyway, chances are you won't tell the difference
> It's not like netflix 4k looks good anyway I can definitely see a difference between 1080 and 4K on Netflix. Compared on the same internet connection and streaming device in the same house. One 1080 tv and one 4K tv.
Makes you think, how much further we could stretch things if we were all using the Nims/C/C++ of the world instead of the Ruby's. Please don't immediately flame, I'm just saying objectively, we could stretch hardware out much further. What do you guys think about this?
That said, I have been enjoying maxing out my Raspberry Pi to see what I can get it to do. (File server, PiHole so far, transcoding audio files so far...)
Looking forward to writing some node.js servers for it to see what it can support.
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What if it's still 4k with reduced bit rate ? It's not like netflix 4k looks good anyway, chances are you won't tell the difference
> It's not like netflix 4k looks good anyway I can definitely see a difference between 1080 and 4K on Netflix. Compared on the same internet connection and streaming device in the same house. One 1080 tv and one 4K tv.
Interesting counterpoint to the "broadband is so much better in Europe" trope. Unless of course we are under strain here in the US as well....
Isn't the trope "broadband is better somewhere else" for most places? Anecdotally, most people I know complain about the connection where they live.
I then decide look up their average Internet speed [1], and turns out they are all in the Top 10.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...