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>There's an important point that I think people are missing, which is that the bandwidth usage of internet services is going to be carefully tuned to balance qu
by Casteil 4y ago
>There's an important point that I think people are missing, which is that the bandwidth usage of internet services is going to be carefully tuned to balance quality and stability at typical internet speeds.
...or the fact that there can be and often are more than one person in a single household.
- saghm 4y agoThis was super noticeable for a few years whenever I went back home to visit my parents. I would struggle to load basically anything on my laptop most evenings due to the 5 mpbs or so being split between 3+ devices (although the weak signal in most rooms due to the poor placement of the router that they were not interested in moving somewhere more central didn't help either). Eventually when the pandemic hit and my father started working from home, they quickly discovered that he would not be able to get his work done if my mother was streaming something at the same time, so they ended up upgrading to a more expensive plan, and the next time I visited, I was pleased to find that my issues had vanished.
- genewitch 4y agoi can provably determine whenever someone in my household is using youtube. We have "fixed wireless" as primary internet access right now, and the upstream is measurably between 300 and 800 kilobits. However, the "router" assumes perfect connection (which i am guessing is somewhere around 5mbit) so any sort of QOS is out the window. And it's behind CGNAT, so i'm getting a class C on a class A private network, and all gaming stuff that doesn't like NAT to begin with balks. I've worked around that (check my github or whatever), but the fact remains, without literal triple-NAT my household can't actually use the internet as it exists, even with potentially 40mbit downstream speeds.