Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
by vvillena on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @11:26AM
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The problem is that underprovisioning uses some statistical average that will fail on special situations. Content streaming is so common now that there are peak hours where almost everyone is streaming video. If ISPs need to have that use case in mind, it should be possible for them to sustain that demand 24/7. If they don't do that, it's for one of two reasons. Either they can't sustain peak demand and they are trying to disincentivize usage, or they can handle a heavy demand but want to charge extra for off-peak bandwitdh usage, thus earning money for an already amortized infrastructure.
Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs
by tcd on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @11:11AM
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Maybe 20 years ago we had the same comment "who needs 1gb? You can fit everything in a floppy!".
It's called innovation and progress, thank God you are able to be corrected and change your thoughts as with your approach we'll never get anywhere
Try streaming 4k and get back to me, or is 140p "good enough"?
You are paying for residential Internet service. The number of people who would legitimately need to transfer more than 1 TB per month over a residential Internet connection is vanishingly small. Bandwidth, particularly during high-demand hours, costs money. It is not fair for other users to subsidize your extreme usage scenario (since it is an axiom that all costs borne by the ISP are passed on to customers). It is far more fair that you, the extreme outlier, pays more.