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I went to the link to check that this title was actually the given title of the article. Really? Netflix uses at peak, 20% of the bandwidth at certain hours o
by patrickgzill 16y ago
I went to the link to check that this title was actually the given title of the article.
Really?
Netflix uses at peak, 20% of the bandwidth at certain hours of the day, which is itself an elastic resource (that is, most connections can burst to a much higher level of bandwidth well beyond the average or median Mbps).
What this is really about is that Netflix exposes the liars who have been claiming to sell you "unlimited" bandwidth for a set monthly price - as soon as you start using more than 5% of the DSL or cable capacity, they scream and whine and moan.
If, like Comcast, they also provide content that Netflix competes with, they scream and whine and moan even louder.