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I think most people's asymmetric bandwidth rates would get in the way of a p2p solution being usable. Maybe if there were some way to break the stream up into
by pille 11y ago
I think most people's asymmetric bandwidth rates would get in the way of a p2p solution being usable.
Maybe if there were some way to break the stream up into individual media files, and then you could download one identical file from lots of different users at the same time.
- jmiserez 11y agoBitTorrent?
- DasIch 11y agoBitTorrent works because uploaders only ever upload a small piece of the file. This works well for downloads but not at all for streaming.
- revelation 11y agoMultipath TCP exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP but that requires the cooperation of Netflix, naturally.
- eyci 11y agoIn the case of Netflix, the video content doesn't need to go through a proxy; only the website does (at the moment). So bandwidth shouldn't really be an issue.