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Infrastructure is part of it, but I think it's really a stopgap to alleviate what exists now: people attempting to stream HD movies, subscribed to cable-cutting technologies that are too high a rate, incompatible cameras, latency-dependent VPN, or running any other kind of system-intense technologies that are good enough for terrestrial but will bring limited satellite resources to its knees. [Edit: Not to mention all the IoT stuff like smart scales, refrigerators, lighting systems, door locks, microwaves, washer/dryers... all of these things that load down a particular user's bandwidth, let alone combined on a limited beam]
We did the math on this several weeks ago. It only takes a relatively few people (in the thousands, iirc) on any one beam to use any of these at any one time to drag everyone on it into the dirt.
So beam capacity is only one part of the problem that might level the load across a beam better rather than compressing it amongst fewer servers and outroutes. You still need to level those resources across the beams routed to a particular gateway (or even intra-gateway, which would certainly increase latency). This way you can pull in resources from underutilized beams (and gateways), and dynamically make full use of the satellite's capacity across the userbase, focusing it where it's needed at any given time.
This all assumes the bottleneck isn't the beam itself (which I really doubt), and lies mostly in the processing required at the ground stations.
One would think with only 10GB to 50GB at full speed of data, anyone that is doing HD that much or use this many contraptions would bottom out in mear days for data and they would no longer be that bottleneck as as they FAP out. I doubt that many would pay big fees for tokens. I am sure it is part of it though as you say. Maybe Hughes should cut off any HD and only allow SD going foreward, unless they have some way to add this capacity.
In such a short time since I been on Gen 5 (late September) it went from only afternoon to late evening slow-down to 24/7 slowdown to 200K speeds. I have not see much faster for a bit now.
So either more people have been added or whatever is broken has broken more. <grin>
Either way, 200K speeds today have been a rough one for sure but I been managing. Just basic emails, web work, and no streaming stuff other than a couple 144p vids on Youtube.
TJ
- MarkJFine7 years agoProfessor
If it were me, I would not only find a way to block HD streaming, I would block the ports of technologies that are crippling the system so they wouldn't work at all.
Edit: Have you noticed all the people saying they can't stream anymore, their system is slow and buffering, and they've ran out of data in only a couple of days? It's no coincidence to me...
- BirdDog7 years agoAssistant Professor
MarkJFine wrote:If it were me, I would not only find a way to block HD streaming, I would block the ports of technologies that are crippling the system so they wouldn't work at all.
Edit: Have you noticed all the people saying they can't stream anymore, their system is slow and buffering, and they've ran out of data in only a couple of days? It's no coincidence to me...
I stream fine on low def Netflix playback setting, don't go over our monthly allowance. We set YouTube videos to 240p using the gear icon.
Seriously no problem here on Gen 4 J1 satellite.
Also awake before 8 AM most mornings so download lots then during Bonus time.
But my speed during peak time:
- GabeU7 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
Around 8:30PM...
Just now...
To be honest, I'm still boggled as to why I can watch Youtube videos in 1080p when I have speeds like the first pic, and even lower. The VDS has to be off, of course, but it still works without issue. At the same time, I know others with speeds of 1Mbps or 2Mbps have buffering all over the place with 480p Youtube vids. Maybe it's that my beam is still lightly loaded, even though my overall speed is low.
Edit: I should add that the latter speed is highly unusual for me at this time of night. Normally it's like the first, or even worse. Maybe it's that it's Friday night and everyone is out. Well, everyone who isn't freezing right now. :( It's -1 degrees here, presently. May hit -10 tonight.
- macsociety7 years agoAdvanced TutorMark, are you saying end streaming of any quality video? That includes netflix, YouTube, etc. ?
TJ- MarkJFine7 years agoProfessor
I'm saying the reason why they included the video optimizer in the first place was to save data, but I'm pretty sure it was also to discourge users from automatically streaming anything above 360p.
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