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The problem of course isn't the internet "speed" but latency. ISPs advertise hundreds of Mbps but conveniently forget to mention latency, average packet loss an
by Tomis02 6y ago
The problem of course isn't the internet "speed" but latency. ISPs advertise hundreds of Mbps but conveniently forget to mention latency, average packet loss and other connection quality metrics.
- opportune 6y agoCorrect me if I’m wrong but I believe ISPs use a combination of hardware and software to “throttle down” network connections as they attempt to download more data. For example if I try to download a 10GB file on my personal computer I’ll start off at something like 40mbps and it will take 15 seconds before they start allowing me to scale up to 300mbps. I assume that when downloading things like websites, which should only take tens or hundreds of ms, this unthrottling could also be a significant factor in addition to latency, depending on what the throttling curve looks like. Also ISPs oversell capacity, which they’ve probably always done, so even if you’re paying for a large bandwidth that doesn’t mean you’ll ever get it.