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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.
1000/35 for me. Yay DOCSIS.
Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
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#352I'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…
> have had 4 techs come try to figure it out
Doesn't sound ideal for distancing.
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#353i severely lucked out being in a college town during all this, so many people just left the town, our networks are blazing :P
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#354Torrent as means of distribution would have been just perfect for the bandwidth.
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On a related note, if you watch Netflix in Chrome or Firefox then you're only getting a resolution of 720p. Google Chrome Up to 720p on Windows, Mac, and Linux Up to 1080p on Chrome OS Internet Explorer up to 1080p Microsoft Edge up to 4K* Mozilla Firefox up to 720p Opera up to 720p Safari up to 1080p on Mac OS X 10.10.3 or later *Streaming in 4K requires an HDCP 2.2 compliant connection to a 4K capable display, Inte…
Microsoft really wants users signed in to a Microsoft account on Windows. One of their main leverages for this is encouraging people to use the app store in Windows, which doesn't fully work if you're just logged in to a local account
It doesn't? Seems to work fine for me...
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A "last foot" tech might not even have access to those tools, much less know how to use them.
Rolling out that tech has got to be more expensive than checking the load first.
Dunno how it is in the States, but here in UK rolling out the tech is basically the first thing they do after the unavoidable "have you tried turning it on and off again" phone call. They just don't trust the customer to have any clue and maybe don't want to waste time doing troubleshooting at their end when it's "probably" a downstream issue.
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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...
This is common for any company that operates a CDN. It just so happens Netflix is a big enough content deliverer that they run their own network rather than pay to use someone else’s.
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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..
Not amateurs, liars.
So Frontier?
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The big German ISPs don't have Netflix caches within their infrastructure, which might be part of the problem here. Last mile infrastructure might be even worse though.
Germany is rather odd compared to the other countries with its adoption of broadband tech - for example you see a decent bit of FTTH/FTTx in NL, NO/DK/SE (muni owned, early adopters), etc. Then you go to Germany and it's mass of DSL (and some areas cable). I wonder what happened or why?
in 1981 the (west) german government passed a law that over the next 30 years a nationwide fiber net should be established. sadly, in 1982 when helmut kohl (a conservative) became cancelor these plans were scrapped. instead we got cable tv.
one reason was cost of course - cable was 60% cheaper than fiber.
another much darker reason was: the public tv back then was, from a conservative standpoint, very leftish (e.g. shows like "monitor" or "panorama"). the conservative leaders couldn't control public tv, but they could open the gates for a nationwide private tv sector. and they did.