Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by ksec on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:14PM (#22631203)

I have never heard any body complain about broadband speed from Japan, South Korea or Hong Kong. For parts of Europe, Such as Finland, Norway or Sweden are also mostly problem free.

I then decide look up their average Internet speed [1], and turns out they are all in the Top 10.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_...

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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by nicolas_t on Thursday March 19, 2020 @04:30PM (#22631392)

I live in Hong Kong and I always complain about my broadband speed. I get 1GBPs but actually it's not true, the link to US is limited and is rather small given how many people use it so connections speed outside of HK is around 80mbps much much slower than I had in Europe or Japan.

And the contract is for 24 months minimum, so if you leave the country before the end, you end up having to pay for the rest of your contract.

But, in general, US ISPs are particularly bad in my experience (and worse even than HK)

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