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Can't wait true test of how much traffic the internet can handle!
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Also after 11pm .. With more working from home, this could expand to anytime. But I guess the busiest times would still be in the evening...
...unless you take into account that everyone, everywhere will get sick. Not likely to happen
I know my neighborhood FIOS has seen a hit. It comes and goes throughout the day... I will do a speed test and it will be low and the same test an hour later and it is much higher. It is going back and forth up and down. Same with my cell. I have both an ATT and Verizon phone and I have seen a hit. This is in the greater Los Angeles County area.
I don't think they should end all HD, possibly no 4K. And Disney+ is worse. You can't even manually choose bitrate there. And are they going to adjust bills if they end HD? Or maybe just lower bitrate during working hours.
But only books with, um, repurposeable pages.Maybe people will have to resort to... book reading. Oh, the horror !
Books are multifunction by nature.
- Reading tool
- Writing tool
- Door stop
- Weapon
- Shield
- Covid-19 era Toilet Paper
I tried a book last night, I don't get it, does it not have a backlight? Or audio?
I think the OP is getting "traffic" and "bandwidth" confused. I easily believe Black Friday has the highest traffic when measured in pageviews, which is important to things like firewalls and webapp infrastructure, but not bandwidth. Video is just bandwidth, it's the server parceling out parts of a file with minimal processing.
It has audio.
Open it, possibly around the middle, holding it with two hands. Then close it very quickly, and with strength. In some circumstances, there's some soft wooshing while turning that thing called a "page" which - to my amazement - turns even if there is no button to do so.
Hmmm, does it need charging first? I looked for a battery compartment, or charging port - nothing - so I had to assume it was some kind of wireless tech?
Nah, regular books are low tech save for the occasional microdot implanted on page 43 in the 2nd paragraph.
Maybe people will have to resort to... book reading. Oh, the horror !
Wonderful.
And unlike floppy discs, or other now obsolete (but once cutting edge technologies) books are ageless, and timeless.
And, for the pleasure of pure, proper reading, nothing, but nothing, beats holding a real book in your hands and proceeding to lose yourself in its pages.
Today's mass-market books won't last more than 50-100 years. Factors include not making paper with cotton anymore and use of recycled paper. People have known this for decades, that's a major reason why records, where the ink and paper is often uncontrolled, and periodicals, which use cheap paper, were microfilmed.
Candidly, these days, when much technology is obsolete is under a decade, 50-100 years is more than adequate and is good enough for me.
That is a lot longer than any floppy disc, or other forms of soon-to-be-inaccessible supposedly cutting edge technology, all now obsolete. And not just obsolete, but where the information they hold is utterly inaccessible.
You can still read a manuscript from the Middle Ages, or a piece of parchment, or papyrus from earlier. Books - with covers and pages - will never go out of fashion, and will always be readily accessible to anyone who wishes to read them.
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I do have a stupid amount of paperback Dan Brown books and a few hardback copies of Ayn Rand words. Excellent toilet paper there.
YouTube to Follow Netflix's Lead and Reduce Stream Quality in Europe to Ease Strain on Broadband Networks
Looks like the networks are feeling the affects
Looks like the networks are feeling the affects