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Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by Jyaif on Sunday May 19, 2024 @04:43PM (#40409610)
My home connection uploads at 681mbit/s (just did the test over wifi) for 40 euros/months. At that price, I'd get 13tbit/s for 800k euros.

It's a bit surprising that you were not getting significantly better prices than individuals.

Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by vundercind on Sunday May 19, 2024 @05:57PM (#40410056)
Price business pipes where they won’t cut you off for saturating that 24/7.

[edit] and that have good deliverability worldwide, no weird paths to other consumer IPs that intermittently fail to route or inexplicably have dial-up transfer speeds. And have anything like a real SLA.

Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by swiftcoder on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:13AM (#40415673)
I don't think they legally can in number of European jurisdictions. This isn't like Comcast overselling their copper cables - brand new fiber paid for by the EU comes with certain obligations.
Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by vel0city on Sunday May 19, 2024 @10:42PM (#40411649)
Try uploading at that rate for a few months non-stop and see how long your residential ISP will continue doing business with you.
Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by callalex on Monday May 20, 2024 @03:35AM (#40413187)
That can be taken out by a particularly unfortunate shovel or truck though, and isn’t sufficient to run a business on.
Re:Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" ... by Jyaif on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:16AM (#40415706)
For 800k I would have 20000 different connections. This would allow me to survive many unfortunate shovels per month.