Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by TrickyRick on Thursday March 19, 2020 @05:54PM
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Doesn't really matter though, still means (Slightly oversimplified) that a peer can connect to 10 hosts and not have to download at all from the origin server. Also this simply isn't true in a lot of European countries where upload and download speeds are equal, but that's a different thing.
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Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by lxgr on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:26PM
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The math still does not work out.
On an 1:10 asymmetric connection, users would need to remain available for seeding 10 times longer than it takes to download (and presumably watch) the film to have a net positive impact on the system.
That's not exactly realistic, considering that a lot of traffic goes to mobile devices where this would outright kill battery life.
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by orcasauce on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:32PM
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And Smart TVs which lack the computational power/storage/memory to serve traffic.
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by throwaway744678 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:21PM
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Can you explain what you mean by that last statement? It does not sound true to me. As far as I can tell (in my country) almost all consumer offers are asymmetric: ADSL, obviously, but also fiber. Symmetric offers are very much for professional access, and typically more expensive.
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by anon8366383917 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:41PM
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In Sweden, fiber (which is quite common) is pretty much always symmetric. 100/100 is common, many people have 1000/1000 and there is residential symmetric 10 Gb/s to be had. Asymmetric ADSL and Cable is definitely not uncommon though.