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Fox News says killing N.N. will save the internet
IkeTheGeneric:
Sounds like they need to work on getting better infrastructure rather than throttling connections and lobbying against net neutrality
Kearn:
i'm sure they'd be happy to as soon as someone pays for it
IkeTheGeneric:
Man that would be a great retort if ISPs weren't actively wasting subsidies given to them to specifically expand infrastructure...
sounds to me like you're the one drinking the corporate koolaid here lmfao
Ipquarx:
They're talking inter-country traffic between two specific countries. Their peak traffic is all traffic across the globe, which includes their CDNs (content distribution networks) in each individual country so that the bulk of the traffic isn't going across countries. This is the basics of how these kinds of websites work. There is no issue with bandwidth whatsoever. This is the basics of how content distribution works.
And this is of no fault of their own; they're merely providing a paid service to users who are explicitly requesting that they send the data over. To say that an ISP has the right to extort money from a business because it's become popular and has many people requesting data from it is just silly.
Kearn:
--- Quote from: Ipquarx on December 17, 2017, 02:07:48 AM ---There is no issue with bandwidth whatsoever.
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what is a service provider supposed to do in areas with old or lower-capacity infrastructure? i (and a number of other people i know) live in an area with older infrastructure that is incapable of handling peak demand in the evenings and on weekends. it only started becoming an issue a few years ago when a number of our neighbors started using netflix, and that's been the case for other people i've asked
feel free to pay them to run fiber optic out to me though id appreciate it