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Network congestion is a real thing. If everyone else in my neighborhood is streaming Netflix in 4k, it's going to reduce my connection's performance. Why should
by mrosett 7y ago
Network congestion is a real thing. If everyone else in my neighborhood is streaming Netflix in 4k, it's going to reduce my connection's performance. Why shouldn't the cable company charge them more for that? If we all pay the same, I'm subsidizing them.
- dymk 7y agoDon’t put the burden on your neighbors, put in on your ISP to upgrade their infrastructure. You all agreed to a level of service, time for your ISP to live up to it.
- airstrike 7y agoBecause if there are that many people in your neighborhood who can stream Netflix in 4K, the ISP can lay fiber in a densely populated area making a metric shit ton of money for the foreseeable future, and the pipes will not be clogged. They can easily fit everyone in their fiber infrastructure. The ISP isn't losing money from offering fiber to New Yorkers. They lose money by paying for infrastructure in less populated areas in middle America. They're trying to make up for that by making urban customers effectively subsidize the Capex the company needs to spend elsewhere This is a problem in the US and not elsewhere because it's a massive country with people spread all over