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A comment on Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days. Parent comment

Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by codyb on Thursday March 19, 2020 @05:52PM (#22632151)
If you’re downloading ten segments from ten different uploaders it can all balance out I think.

Bittorrent can be damn quick. Haven’t used it in a while but it was certainly fast on well seeded items.

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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days by notyourday on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:15PM (#22632787)
Bittorrent would eat all of the available bandwidth if the content is popular enough that there are always new leachers available.

With enough bandwidth Bittorrent would be less efficient than a single stream TCP between the source and destination because of the protocol overhead.

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