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> Encoding and compression software What does that have to do with bandwidth ?

• SEJeff 6y ago
  Sending less data over starlink (which is not tcp/ip btw). I’d you can make 10Mb suddenly only require 900k of actual raw bandwidth by say adding a fpga or something then you can increase throughout to the users.
  • bryanlarsen 6y ago
    Hopefully in 2020 most internet traffic is encrypted. If encrypted traffic is compressible you're doing it wrong.
    • BenjiWiebe 6y ago
      It would help if it was compressed pre-encryption, by the server.
  • Ekaros 6y ago
    If that big compression rates where achievable why wouldn't we be already using them? They would be standard in any network.
  • dreamcompiler 6y ago
    Technology only improves compression ratios to a certain point, and we passed that point with lossless compression decades ago. We're approaching that point with lossy compression now. Going beyond that point requires the laws of physics (more precisely, the laws of information theory) to change, and that's not going to happen.