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Well Netflix has to have been running at multiples of their regular bandwidth the last year, and at least anecdotally my experience has been flawless, and I hav
by zaroth 6y ago
Well Netflix has to have been running at multiples of their regular bandwidth the last year, and at least anecdotally my experience has been flawless, and I haven't read about any widespread issues with Netflix streaming.
It certainly seems the free market was able to deal with it.
One thing I'm really happy with is how the FCC ran the $9.2 billion auction for the RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) subsidies. Although I don't have hard numbers, my impression is that the USF (Universal Service Fund) is a typical government boondoggle, and the RDOF auction format was a pretty innovative way to distribute the funds.
For a minute there it looked like they would try to exclude SpaceX from bidding in the high bandwidth / low latency tier, but ultimately they went with taking a chance on their unproven tech and they were able to win $885 million in subsidies.
- ASalazarMX 6y agoNetflix has a wide distribution infrastructure, both in physical data centers and in cloud providers. Fast.com will usually give you sustained fast speeds even if your overall internet access is spotty. IIRC, some people were able to watch Netflix even when there were global internet outages. Their team is amazing.
- ulucs 6y agoChaos engineering really pays off
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- ncmncm 6y agoThere is no free market in communication. "Was able to deal with it" is a curious turn of phrase: Yes, there are still companies. But has Americans' access to communication kept pace with the technology and with the rest of the world? Very, very far from it. Americans, collectively, pay far more, for far fewer bits, than others in the world, particularly once you get just a few miles away from a city center. It is telling how much higher prices are in places where competition has been curtailed by the FCC's failures, and how much higher even prices where two services operate are, than in other countries. The number of states where towns have been forbidden to operate a municipal network also reveals our poor condition. America is a third-world country in communication, just as it is in infant mortality. It is not accidental. There are reasons that a cable service is the most hated company in the US, more even than Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, or Koch Industries, which might deserve it more.
- aaomidi 6y agoFrom your profile it seems like you live in MA right? https://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-information-technology/net-neutrality-legislation-in-states.aspx https://www.ncsl.org/research/telecommunications-and-informa... Your state has net neutrality. https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tracker/ https://www.naruc.org/nrri/nrri-activities/net-neutrality-tr...
- zaroth 6y agoI don’t think any of the Net Neutrality bills in MA ever actually became law. But with the way the internet actually works, it’s not clear that state-level regulation can be effect in this area, since packets will frequently cross state lines.