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Two ugly chickens are coming home to roost here. 1) ISP's insisted on selling home bandwidth as functionally unlimited. They did this primarily so they would o
by noonespecial 12y ago
Two ugly chickens are coming home to roost here.
1) ISP's insisted on selling home bandwidth as functionally unlimited. They did this primarily so they would only have to offer expensive plans. Grandma can't get the 300meg email plan for $8, only the $80 plan. And then everybody tried to use it like it really was unlimited.
2) DRM. Drm makes it so that the net can't cache. 90% of netfilx bandwidth is likely the same 10% of videos. They all have to make the full trip through the wires. A local cache at the ISP to improve efficiency is impossible.
- snorrah 12y agoRegarding 2): Don't Netflix provide content servers / boxes / network devices that ISP's can put in the ISP's own data centres to help with exactly this issue? https://www.netflix.com/openconnect https://www.netflix.com/openconnect