Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

Post by pbhjpbhj » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

martin8412 wrote: post #205

rosybox wrote: post #50

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You know, right now is not a time to be thinking about your ability to get the luxury service and goods you're used to. It's about us all staying alive and keeping each other alive and making it through this. Maybe you have to do with a little bit less than you're used to, maybe you don't think it's fair because you've paid $5 extra for your extra stream quality. None of us think what's happening is fair, but we have…

But this is a completely unnecessary measure. Most ISPs in the EU don't have any problems keeping up with the increased demand. To make matters worse most Netflix content is served directly from the ISPs network. This is a retarded symbolic policy to make it seem like a certain EU politician is doing something, when in fact it makes no difference what so ever.

Post by fibers » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

martin_bech wrote: post #258

rococode wrote: post #246

I've been having major internet issues lately (Seattle area), have had 4 techs come try to figure it out. Yesterday's tech finally correctly diagnosed the problem as happening before the connection reaches our home but was unsure of the cause. He called his supervisor to investigate, and they found that the capacity for our neighborhood's node was nearly at 100%, while ideally it should always be under 80%. Fortunate…

I’ve worked at a major ISP, for a decade, and spotting something like this should be so easy to spot. There are tools on monitoring of load all the time, and areas are routibely getting split etc. to improve bandwith, so I think your ISP are basicly amateurs..

Post by jacobsenscott » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 10:32 PM UTC

Sosh101 wrote: post #288

amelius wrote: post #260

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Except residential upload speeds are usually only 1/10th of the corresponding download speed.

Maybe 10 years ago? I don't know anyone with a connection that badly asymmetrical.

Post by rwbhn » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 10:34 PM UTC

sulam wrote: post #328

martin_bech wrote: post #297

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Yes it can, but why would it take several techs, to spot something like load, which is the first thing you would do, it should take no more than 10s to look it up in a tool.

A "last foot" tech might not even have access to those tools, much less know how to use them.

Post by cosmodisk » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC

orcasauce wrote: post #278

jazzyjackson wrote: post #256

Maybe if we had kept using bittorrent for TV distribution we wouldn't have so much global traffic downloading "The Avengers" for the millionth time, you would just download it from the nearest host (also the way the internet worked before HTTPS, there used to be way more local caching of content being downloaded over and over again)

As I understand it Netflix has hardware in ISP data centers to do exactly that. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/