sure, we got it and our networks can handle it easily - even with all the remote work from home we‘re not experiencing any slowdowns.
but we also got tabloid media and opportiunistic, populistic politicians. and so do you, by the way.
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Netflix Reduces Streaming Video Quality in Europe to Lower Data Usage and Ease Strain on Broadband Networks
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sure, we got it and our networks can handle it easily - even with all the remote work from home we‘re not experiencing any slowdowns.
but we also got tabloid media and opportiunistic, populistic politicians. and so do you, by the way.
If people think that anything is designed to serve every possible single user at the same time they are setting themselves for a rude awakening.
🤬 you clearly do not understand much!!! Selfishness is a sick decease
Currently it's Netflix who are selfish as long as they don't announce (preferably today) a price deduction of their various plans. Subcribers can suffer in crisis but a multi billion company like Netflix cannot?
bradband networks should get their act together - they should be able to handle this overload and even greater overloads
You speak as if this is a disgusting move, but I find your attitude selfish and disgusting. It's entertainment, not food and water. Learn to read a book.
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Apple has had a couple of missteps, but classifying all Apple products as half-assed is just wrong.
Reading a book still doesn't change the fact I don't pay for Netflix or Youtube to halfass the service I pay for.
I have a bunch of California relatives who have claimed that their cable internets have crashed to unusably low figures, and have switched to using internet hotspots. Doubtless this will compound the problem.
From what I understand of cable, the bandwidth is essentially shared and oversubscribed. Home internet is typically biased towards fast download speeds, and business internet applications (video conferencing, especially) also requires high upload speeds.
What's happened in Italy will happen in California in n days time.
My FIOS connection (in Virginia, where 105 cases have been identified) is currently running at about half speed download, full upload.)
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As our mothers used to say-- read a book, go outside, ride a bike, play with your friends. Don't waste your life sitting in front of the tv.
Good advice, no?
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It probably has more to do with millions upon millions of schoolchildren home all day... streaming Bob the Builder on repeat...
It probably has more to do with millions upon millions of schoolchildren home all day... streaming Bob the Builder on repeat...
youtube and netflix probably have access to this sort of data. We don't, and therefore must trust higher ups to make a useful decision, not just a pr motivated decision.
I was just speculating that it's probably more kids who are home all day watching Netflix... rather than adults at home working as the previous commenter suggested.
But it's just my guess!
Not really sure what the size of California and roaming being free or not has to do with capacity for Netflix.
If I could like this more than once I would.
Those that are crying about having to suffer SD rather than HD during a world crisis can use all that toilet paper they probably also bought to wipe away their tears.
You were the one who objected when I pointed out we have better LTE networks in the US than in Europe. Which, if you haven't been paying attention, have been seeing more load due to use by subsidized school devices, bored kids, and corporate use at home.
And I corrected you, you have better LTE network than SOME countries in Europe.
And the LTE network really isn't even the problem, it's poor infrastructure in some countries and bad home connections with DSL etc.
Meanwhile we in countries where most people have fiber connections and good capacity in the infrastructure also are punished.
Here is a thread on Twitter that explains (in german) what they're doing and why: link
Translation:
Just had a video conference with @dtemkin of #Netflix regarding #NetflixQualityDrop:
- highest bitrate is removed, in HD profile instead of 3.8 still 2.9Mbps. Analog in UHD profile. SD profile unchanged.
- saves about 25% bandwidth
- The #NetflixQualityDrop measure is initially limited to 30 days. Europe as of now, the rest of the world will probably follow next week.
- There is no opt-out for providers
- The measure is quite an exercise for #Netflix and was implemented very quickly. The hope remains that it will remain an absolutely unique thing.
- The reason for #NetflixQualityDrop is not to overload #Peering or cache servers.
- The main driver for #NetflixQualityDrop is the overload of backhaul capacity of some broadband providers (namely in Italy, Spain). These are running at full capacity and additional cache servers in the cities cannot be implemented by #Netflix in a timely manner.
- Last but not least there was only an "all" or "nothing" for #Netflix and in the sense of crisis management in some areas the decision of #NetflixQualityDrop can be understood, even if it sometimes hits the wrong customers.
- It is clear to everyone that #Netflix would have preferred to do without it as well.
Translation:
Just had a video conference with @dtemkin of #Netflix regarding #NetflixQualityDrop:
- highest bitrate is removed, in HD profile instead of 3.8 still 2.9Mbps. Analog in UHD profile. SD profile unchanged.
- saves about 25% bandwidth
- The #NetflixQualityDrop measure is initially limited to 30 days. Europe as of now, the rest of the world will probably follow next week.
- There is no opt-out for providers
- The measure is quite an exercise for #Netflix and was implemented very quickly. The hope remains that it will remain an absolutely unique thing.
- The reason for #NetflixQualityDrop is not to overload #Peering or cache servers.
- The main driver for #NetflixQualityDrop is the overload of backhaul capacity of some broadband providers (namely in Italy, Spain). These are running at full capacity and additional cache servers in the cities cannot be implemented by #Netflix in a timely manner.
- Last but not least there was only an "all" or "nothing" for #Netflix and in the sense of crisis management in some areas the decision of #NetflixQualityDrop can be understood, even if it sometimes hits the wrong customers.
- It is clear to everyone that #Netflix would have preferred to do without it as well.