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I don't really get why this is so controversial? I mean, all of the HN crowd here must understand the idea of oversubscription, and many of us have also seen pr
by filleokus 7y ago
I don't really get why this is so controversial? I mean, all of the HN crowd here must understand the idea of oversubscription, and many of us have also seen prices for dedicated 1 Gb/s connection in data centers?
Am I missing something here? Am I overestimating the costs of bandwidth, does the Netflix/CDN edge serves inside of the ISP network lower it dramatically?
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoThis is hardly the only possible response to oversubscription, just the one that maximizes short term profits. The customer certainly isn't funding better internet (if it did the government subsidies would have worked), and they certainly aren't getting the advertised service. So yea, you could frame this in terms of rationality, but since when was rationality the sole basis of ethics, and since when have ethics become irrelevant to human life?
- zzzcpan 7y agoDedicated gigabit in a datacenter can be pretty low cost, easily $200 per month or even lower. Local caching servers can reduce bandwidth tenfold. A typical residential fiber infrastructure built in the last decade has planned capacity for decades into the future, there cannot possibly be a congestion on that level yet.