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Yeah true. I guess I need to remember the ISP I work for here in Australia (front line tech support, and then network operations physical security and infrastructure) was widely recognised as the best ISP in Australia multiple years running, so I shouldn't use it as a baseline expectation.
So how was life at internode or aussie?
Yeah, was a good place to work. I was in their Adelaide data centres when iiNet acquired the company.
I am really wondering whether this means they have to re-encode all the streams at 25% less bitrate, or whether they already have them available at that exact bitrate and can thus just change a default. Because what I usually observe when Netflix compromises the streaming quality because of bandwidth problems with my connection is a far larger drop in quality than would be expected at just 25% less bits - it normally…
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This is really driving me nuts... Netflix is consistently giving me subpar resolution in firefox. It's quite rare that I even get 720p. Yet switching to microsoft edge, boom suddenly it's great. There used to be some extensions to switch the resolution up on chrome and firefox, but I do believe they're not working anymore. Another case for piracy I guess.
I believe this is because Edge is capable of decrypting and displaying DRM-protected 4K streams. I don't think it's just Netflix being difficult.
Ok, I'll unsubscribe from Netflix. I've been eying those HBO shows anyway.
Edit: 8-year running subscription now cancelled. I have no polite words for what I feel for this action by Netflix. Fxxk them.
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)
Ideally we would treat hospital capacity the same way. In good times, everyone gets a private room.
So they are throttling because they can't fulfill the demand and want to save money on network traffic?
The EU asked them to. They were having no problem keeping up.
Also it would be the first time that a U.S net company does something voluntarily just by kindly asking.
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I would never risk suggesting people use the legal app popcorntime to pirate copyrighted material.
What is the advantage over good ol' fashion torrenting? I guess I'm just an old timer....
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I think the point is to protect things like remote desktop, zoom, etc from being pushed out by netflix traffic.
Isn't that mostly a QoS issue?
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…
A free alternative to PingPlotter: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality My connection: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/... In case anyone is shopping for broadband in the UK, I only have great things to say about Zen pictured above. It's so good I just called to upgrade my 80 Mb to a 300 Mb just for fun, meanwhile my quarantined Italian friends are suffering awful in…