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That's a long term solution. Short term, ISPs can't increase bandwidth availability, and Netflix can reduce bandwidth consumption. And I'm not sure it's a non
by leereeves 7y ago
That's a long term solution.
Short term, ISPs can't increase bandwidth availability, and Netflix can reduce bandwidth consumption.
And I'm not sure it's a nonissue. The videos in my online classes are pausing every few seconds lately. And watching those in a lower quality isn't an option because the writing needs to be readable.
On the other hand, Zoom works better than EdX, so it may be the EdX servers that are overwhelmed.
- new2628 7y agoWhy can't ISPs reduce Netflix data?
- franky47 7y agoSome countries still have "Net Neutrality" laws preventing just that.
- new2628 7y agoI thought it was clear that "laws" are out of the window everywhere now.
- dogma1138 7y agoThe EU for the most part doesn't, traffic shaping is still legal just a practice that died mainly due to the difficulty of implementing it these days than due to net neutrality. https://berec.europa.eu/eng/netneutrality/ https://berec.europa.eu/eng/netneutrality/ >ISPs are prohibited from blocking or slowing down of Internet traffic, except where necessary. The exceptions are limited to: traffic management to comply with a legal order, to ensure network integrity and security, and to manage congestion, provided that equivalent categories of traffic are treated equally.
- ThePowerOfFuet 7y agoBecause it's streamed using HTTPS so they cannot remux or transcode it (not like they have the CPU power to do so anyway).
- antoinealb 7y agoThey could still throttle the TCP stream, and many do. Then the player will likely switch to a lower quality video to adapt to the bandwidth.
- sciurus 7y agoBut is that caused by contention between netflix traffic and your online classes providers traffic, or is it just a capacity issue with your online classes provider's infrastructure?
- zozbot234 7y agoThe long-term solution is IP multicast for live streaming.
- lxgr 7y agoThat would help for things like Youtube TV, but I'm assuming that users would not be too happy about having to coordinate their binging with their neighbours?