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Yup, but I wonder why there were bandwidth issues in Europe when the pandemic first started (video streaming services started throttling bitrate very aggressive
by radicaldreamer 5y ago
Yup, but I wonder why there were bandwidth issues in Europe when the pandemic first started (video streaming services started throttling bitrate very aggressively in Europe) but there were no issues in the United States.
Perhaps the last mile average is slow but the overall infrastructure and backbone is more robust in the US (this would make sense historically as well)
- hunterb123 5y agoWireless internet is more common in European and Asian countries because you can put up a few towers and be done, it gets throttled when you have congestion. America has fiber and mostly copper (from our phone line laying days) strung all throughout America, the bandwidth is much higher in total. The job left here is replacing copper w/ fiber (or at least DOCSIS 3.1 via copper), but it's expensive and some ISPs it isn't worth it for the customers they have, so you have some areas bringing the national average down. Starlink will be nice for really remote areas where it make no sense to run a line or a tower for a couple customers. Existing sat internet is unusable. There's also been a big push to modernize slightly bigger towns with fiber by smaller ISPs.
- Bayart 5y agoAs far as I can remember, the stress was mostly put on exchanges more so than overall capacity. I'm not aware of any real degradation beyond the panic in the news about « running out of Internet ».
- hocuspocus 5y agoThere was no issue in Europe either, it was a political decision, not a technical one.