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I feel like this is a prime example of survivorship bias. We're in an era where things have to be transcoded to utilize a smaller amount of bandwidth, so the st
by pathartl 7y ago
I feel like this is a prime example of survivorship bias. We're in an era where things have to be transcoded to utilize a smaller amount of bandwidth, so the stuff delivered to us it pre-optimized for our connection. If YouTube or Netflix suddenly made their encodes not crap, we might actually saturate the network.
Having asymmetric connections in most homes I feel severely limits how we utilize the internet. I'm definitely a power user and would choose to run multiple game servers and web servers along with some video streaming if my connection was symmetric instead of the 400/25 that Spectrum offers in my area. However, I feel like there's a ton of missed potential for home-based consumer server appliances. Maybe companies like Apple would be more inclined to take platforms like Synology and create something that's even more user friendly.
- hsk823 7y agoThey want you to buy the business product / enterprise product then. I know it sucks to be in the power user category, but part of the reason they have such limited upload channels is to prevent their networks for being used exactly how you want to use it. They don't want people running servers, they want your money to upgrade to an enterprise level service.
- mxuribe 7y agoI agree that there's so much potential that could be tapped if only we consumers could host stuff at home. In fact, I don't get why ISPs don't push for this; I have to imagine there's a market out there for this.
- pathartl 7y agoStuff like Syno is probably the easiest stuff out there, but it's still not like I could give it to my parents. It has huge potential just from a marketing standpoint. "Your data's secure because you know exactly where it is." and such.