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Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
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#502Paying isn't enough to get what you paid for, so... https://github.com/SickChill/SickChill - automatically download TV episodes (about Linux) https://github.com/CouchPotato/CouchPotatoServer - automatically download Movies (about Linux) https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent - torrent client for downloading your Linux tv/movies...
Sonarr and Radarr are 10x better.
Also interested in why they're better?
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#503Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're grossly oversimplifying the complexity involved with "streaming" a video. Specifically in the context of a service like Disney+ or Netflix. Additionally how do you "find" that content near you? How do you ensure it is available? How do you ensure it is correct? Who owns it? How do you ensure copyright/drm/licenses are respected? What do you do when it disappears? The gains are incredibly slim, if at all, for t…
First, OpenConnect is just a CDN run by Netflix, they could call it bunny protocol it’s just a name. But, they don’t have unlimited boxes at every ISP, in almost every case you can get P2P connections between specific users with lower network overhead than those users connecting to one of the ISP’s data centers. Anyway, the CDN knows the connections that are on the network because they are what are connecting to it.…
> First, OpenConnect is just a CDN run by Netflix, they could call it bunny protocol it’s just a name. But, they don’t have unlimited boxes at every ISP, in almost every case you can get P2P connections between specific users with lower network overhead than those users connecting to one of the ISP’s data centers.
They have boxes in a lot of ISPs.
If “P2P” requires you to transit your last mile to your ISPs POP and then back down to another user, and Netflix requires you to transit to the ISP POP and back out again... has P2P gained you much? In most cases downstream throughput is much higher as well, making the in-ISP cache box far better for most.
P2P has its place but it’s hard to argue its better for video distribution.
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#504Maybe 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)
The greatest advantage of torrents is also its greatest disadvantage.
It’s distributed by nature but it relies on a network of computers (peers) to always be available. And given the asymmetric speed of most consumer grade internet connections, most peers tend to be greedy and disconnect from the mesh after the download finishes.
This is where private torrent sites stepped in and encouraged sharing ratios. Of course, most of the “peers” ended up being dedicated servers with symmetric gigabit lines rented from some host in a foreign country.
So in the end it, the patterns shifted back to data centers and “dumb terminals”
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#505I'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…
If you didn't know, that 80% number is probably the result of Little's Law. That's the result where if your demand is generated by a Poisson process, and your service has a queue, 80% utilization of the service is where the probability of an infinite queue starts to get really high. People Here's a nice blog post about the subject: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/01/30/server-utilization...
I've noticed that above 70-80% it gets pretty hard to insure that interrupt timing can be met and balanced with low priority main looping in a lot of my bare metal embedded projects.
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#506Maybe 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)
Edge caching should provide similar benefits no?
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#507Earlier quoted context omitted.
As I understand it Netflix has hardware in ISP data centers to do exactly that. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
That's quite something when a streaming service can go to the ISP with their hardware...
I was involved in starting a streaming service in SE Asia and the costs of 3rd party edge caching (Akamai etc) were significant. So much so that it made the business model non-viable without work arounds. Eventually we partnered with ISPs and piggybacked their edge caches.
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#508I'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…
Ho lee sh, that is absolutely crazy.
I am sure its affecting you internet speed, what sorts of tasks are you generally doing now that the entire is state is pretty much on lockdown?
Here in Alberta, although we are told be socially distant, there is no full lockdown and I want to know what kind of issues would I be expecting to run into in the up coming weeks/months?
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#509Earlier quoted context omitted.
As I understand it Netflix has hardware in ISP data centers to do exactly that. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
Netflix might have data centers that gets closer, but nothing will ever get as far reaching and close as P2P would. A residential building who are all watching the same movie would only have to download the movie from building internet once. Replicate this system on every level (local network building city country) and you get so much more bandwidth available. Of course there are other considerations and we (humans)…
Windows 10 and Xbox do p2p aggressively for games and updates
Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
#510I'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…
What ISP? I’m on Comcast “Business Class” in Seattle and experiencing occasional slowdowns as well.
Same