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I gave a fellow who'd just come off the ice a ride while he was hitchhiking, he was saying that the blog author was somewhat resented by others because his blog
by EdwardDiego 2y ago
I gave a fellow who'd just come off the ice a ride while he was hitchhiking, he was saying that the blog author was somewhat resented by others because his blog posts, as amazing as they are, tended to hog what limited bandwidth they already had while the images uploaded, but he was given priority because the administration realised the PR value of it.
Which I thought ties into the discussion about slow internet nicely.
- Aachen 2y agoI was wondering about the practicalities indeed. Not everyone knows when their OS or applications decided it is now a great time to update. You'll have a phone in your pocket that is unnecessarily using all the bandwidth it can get its hands on, or maybe you're using the phone but just don't realise that watching a 720p video, while barely functional, also means the person trying to load it after you cannot watch even 480p anymore (you might not notice because you've got buffer and they'll give up before their buffer is filled enough to start playing). It seems as though there should be accounting so you at least know what % of traffic went to you in the last hour (and a reference value of bandwidth_available divided by connected_users so you know what % was your share if everyone had equal need of it), if not a system that deprioritises everyone unless you punched the button that says "yes I'm aware what bandwidth I'm using in the next [X≤24] hour(s) and actually need it, thank you" which'll set the QoS priority for your MAC/IP address to normal