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Why is it meaningless to look at the most common deployment?
by unmole 4y ago
Why is it meaningless to look at the most common deployment?
- Retric 4y agoThe numbers got high enough the differences don’t really matter much, and the distribution is really wide. Suppose you were looking at countries median car top speed. Fining one countries median is 150 MPH vs 156 just don’t tell you much when you can’t drive that speed on public roads. Or in internet terms Netflix etc isn’t sending 8k stream let alone multiple 8k streams. On the other hand many internet connections can’t handle a single 4k or even 1080p stream so percentage of connections over X threshold is more impactful.
- goodpoint 4y agoNetflix often uses local caches hosted by large ISPs, making it even more difficult to talk about Internet "speed".