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You needn’t do more than attempt to watch a streaming video on a busy office LAN or oversubscribed DSL circuit to understand that even the best-served markets f
by iigs 18y ago
You needn’t do more than attempt to watch a streaming video on a busy office LAN or oversubscribed DSL circuit to understand that even the best-served markets for Internet connectivity are struggling to keep up with demand for networked content.
I don't know, I think the worst aspect of my video browsing experience at home is my ISP's second guessing of Youtube's bandwidth and streaming parameters, which end up in their DPI shapers and cause Youtube to underrun.
If the point is "see, if the internet was awesome you wouldn't need those shapers" I guess I couldn't disagree, but experience tells me to trust one smart guy on the far end of the network to figure it out and not rely on the people in between who generally seem to mess it up.
- tptacek 18y agoThat's called "The end-to-end argument in system design", and if you Google that you'll get one of the most important CS papers ever written. I agree with you, of course.