I’ve not noticed any reduction in quality in the U.K. so far, with Apple TV+, Netflix or Amazon Prime Video.
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Apple TV+ Streaming Quality Lowered in Europe to Reduce Network Strain
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It is not because of the ISP networks. The problem is related to particular companies firewall and VPN infrastructure. Or they have bad Wifi at home. Or they have bad upload speeds.
First world problems hey? Be glad you aren't lying in a hospital dying and feeling like you are drowning. I'm sure you can manage with a less sharp picture for a while.
Yeah those Excel spreadsheets and Powerpoints sure use a lot of bandwidth...Even remote desktop sessions don't use that much bandwidth. This is all about poor infrastructure planning and ISPs and streaming companies banking on people not all connecting at the same time. That is a very poor way to design a network infrastructure.
And considering now studios are releasing content straight to streaming bypassing theater releases due to the lockdowns, you'd think they would want better quality to be pushed out for those $20+ purchases.
It seems the government has outdone itself this time. After ordering people to stay inside and watch TV. After that they manage to go directly into the home and degrade the little sense of normalcy there was for no apparent reason.
No. It's systemwide downtime.
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This liberal **** is even worst than I thought. Fine, go out in the streets and party, and eat all the fat junk food you'd like. Get diabetes and then Corona, and complain about leaders doing nothing.
In this case, the 'government' simply asked for help, to get the Internet up and running again. As critical functions in our society relies on working connections... Difficult to comprehend?
Btw. what kind of meaning should be extracted from the last part of your sentence "...for no apparent reason."? Kind of curious.
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I have somewhat hard time understanding what is the source of these issues? Is it the core network between ISP's, between regions such as the US and Europe etc getting saturated? Is it due to various ISP's overselling their capacity so when they suddenly have almost 100% of their users sitting at home utilising almost 100% of their Internet connections all at once it all goes haywire?
There is so little actual documentation on what is going on and the reasoning behind these actions and their logic? If it's indeed because of the core network is not able to cope when suddenly all of the world is starting to use SSL VPN and IPsec connections in order to work from home all while all their kids etc are watching Netflix, Amazon Prime and whatnot 24/7 then perhaps it's time to find a solution to the actual problem and not simply reduce quality of streaming services in order to reduce the load?
In a time where 5G and mmWave is being pushed hard. Where everyone is telling us how blazing fast the world of wireless connections is going to be and how the amount of Internet connected devices is going to skyrocket as we are going to have millions of autonomous cars, all kinds of silly gadget in the "Internet of Things" and whatnot all of this looks rather silly to me. So you are saying that we are just at the beginning of some kind of revolution in-terms of throughput to all over mobile phones, tablets and notebooks, this will also enable us to start adding all cars to have Internet access, to start adding all kinds of small gadget to have direct connection to the Internet making the amount of Internet connected devices explode etc..?
All this while we can't seem to handle a crisis where people decide to utilise the Internet connection and the streaming services they are already paying for? Like come on?
I fully agree that SSL VPN, IPsec tunnels and working from home has to be prioritised. If there is a need to start prioritising due to the fear of saturation then this is the correct move. But this should also bring the question why such measures are need to begin with and as soon as this crisis is over someone would start investigation and require there to be sufficient upgrades where it's needed in order to assure that this should not ever become a problem again in the future.
There is so little actual documentation on what is going on and the reasoning behind these actions and their logic? If it's indeed because of the core network is not able to cope when suddenly all of the world is starting to use SSL VPN and IPsec connections in order to work from home all while all their kids etc are watching Netflix, Amazon Prime and whatnot 24/7 then perhaps it's time to find a solution to the actual problem and not simply reduce quality of streaming services in order to reduce the load?
In a time where 5G and mmWave is being pushed hard. Where everyone is telling us how blazing fast the world of wireless connections is going to be and how the amount of Internet connected devices is going to skyrocket as we are going to have millions of autonomous cars, all kinds of silly gadget in the "Internet of Things" and whatnot all of this looks rather silly to me. So you are saying that we are just at the beginning of some kind of revolution in-terms of throughput to all over mobile phones, tablets and notebooks, this will also enable us to start adding all cars to have Internet access, to start adding all kinds of small gadget to have direct connection to the Internet making the amount of Internet connected devices explode etc..?
All this while we can't seem to handle a crisis where people decide to utilise the Internet connection and the streaming services they are already paying for? Like come on?
I fully agree that SSL VPN, IPsec tunnels and working from home has to be prioritised. If there is a need to start prioritising due to the fear of saturation then this is the correct move. But this should also bring the question why such measures are need to begin with and as soon as this crisis is over someone would start investigation and require there to be sufficient upgrades where it's needed in order to assure that this should not ever become a problem again in the future.
Same here, Netflix, Apple both (thankfully) serving up DolbyVision content here in the U.K. I'm wondering if it's regulated by available bandwidth/threshold, i.e. good capacity = full quality stream, poor/congested capacity = reduced quality stream?