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I've had 5 cable providers in different cities and never experienced that. usually they overprovision you to make your plan look even better.

hedora 4y ago
Next time netflix (or whatever you watch) drops off max resolution, look up the bandwidth requirements that your ISP just failed to meet. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306 We have a 1080p TV. We had a connection that was effectively 6mbit dedicated down, and it never pixelated or buffered. Our “75mbit” comcast line regularly dropped to minimum resolution or started buffering. Speedtests said the connection was providing 25-100 mbit down, since ISPs often prioritize households that are currently running speed tests. This was before netflix launched fast.com to defeat such gaming. For starlink, everything is fine, except that a few times an hour it jumps to the next satellite and the connection drops for about a second. I don’t think it resets tcp streams or anything, but it definitely makes Zoom and “live” TV streaming apps cranky.
- shaklee3 4y ago
  it literally never does that. I'm on spectrum right now and had one outage in 8 years.
- yencabulator 4y ago
  > For starlink, everything is fine, except that a few times an hour it jumps to the next satellite and the connection drops for about a second. > I don’t think it resets tcp streams or anything, but it definitely makes Zoom and “live” TV streaming apps cranky. It hops to next satellite more often than that. The satellites take about 90 minutes to go around the globe. Most of the handovers to next satellite are seamless (maybe 10ms delay in traffic), but especially when they're working on the beta phase software the more routing-oriented parts of the system seem glitchy. Earlier in 2022 I'd lose Internet for a few tens of seconds every now and then -- but that seems to have been a bug in the routing stack that they since fixed.

hedora 4y ago

Next time netflix (or whatever you watch) drops off max resolution, look up the bandwidth requirements that your ISP just failed to meet. https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306 https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306 We have a 1080p TV. We had a connection that was effectively 6mbit dedicated down, and it never pixelated or buffered. Our “75mbit” comcast line regularly dropped to minimum resolution or started buffering. Speedtests said the connection was providing 25-100 mbit down, since ISPs often prioritize households that are currently running speed tests. This was before netflix launched fast.com to defeat such gaming. For starlink, everything is fine, except that a few times an hour it jumps to the next satellite and the connection drops for about a second. I don’t think it resets tcp streams or anything, but it definitely makes Zoom and “live” TV streaming apps cranky.

shaklee3 4y ago
it literally never does that. I'm on spectrum right now and had one outage in 8 years.
yencabulator 4y ago
> For starlink, everything is fine, except that a few times an hour it jumps to the next satellite and the connection drops for about a second. > I don’t think it resets tcp streams or anything, but it definitely makes Zoom and “live” TV streaming apps cranky. It hops to next satellite more often than that. The satellites take about 90 minutes to go around the globe. Most of the handovers to next satellite are seamless (maybe 10ms delay in traffic), but especially when they're working on the beta phase software the more routing-oriented parts of the system seem glitchy. Earlier in 2022 I'd lose Internet for a few tens of seconds every now and then -- but that seems to have been a bug in the routing stack that they since fixed.