Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by iagovar on Thursday March 19, 2020 @06:48PM
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I work in this field in Spain. Margins in this sector are slim, deployment is expensive. EVERYONE works with simultaneity rates, it's the only way to have cheap connections.
In fiber connections is actually not that expensive to split a fiber after a CTO, you can actually sort of daisy chain it, but you want to keep everything as standard as possible.
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by VHRanger on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:52PM
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Margins are not slim at all in the USA
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by ThePowerOfFuet on Friday March 20, 2020 @07:03AM
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You think they're fat in the US? Look north.
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by richjdsmith on Friday March 20, 2020 @11:48AM
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Shh, you'll upset the Great Robelus[1] and they may start euthanizing animals....
[1] https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/03/telus-threatens-to-euth...
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by VHRanger on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:31PM
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I'm Canadian, trust me I know and hate it.
Some EU relatives of mine keep their phone plans living here because it's cheaper with the overseas rate than paying Canadian plan rates (!!!)
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by djannzjkzxn on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:19PM
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Maybe being in the system with a higher speed tier gets you higher priority?
Not only did the rep freely share the utilization numbers with me (80% during the day and 90% at night), he also mentioned that things would not get better until end of the year when they would do a node split.
As consolation, they offered me 10x the download speed for half the price. I'm not really sure how that would help congestion...