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by mcny 2054 days ago
What is the bottleneck here? If it is the uplink (not sure about the correct terminology, I mean the connection from the local box up to the Internet) maybe we can use local caching for stuff like the Netflix OpenConnect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_details_of_Netflix#O...

> Netflix settlement freely peers with Internet service providers (ISPs) directly and at common Internet exchange points. In June 2012, a custom content delivery network called Open Connect was announced.[28] For larger ISPs that have over 100,000 subscribers Netflix offers free Netflix Open Connect server appliances that cache Netflix content within the ISPs' data centers or networks to further reduce Internet transit costs.[29][30] The Open Connect appliances are purpose-built servers that focus on low power and high storage density, and run the FreeBSD operating system, nginx and the Bird Internet routing daemon.[31] By August 2016, Netflix closed its last physical data center, but continued to develop its Open Connect technology.[32]

> A 2016 study at the University of London detected 233 individual locations over six continents, with the largest amount of traffic in the USA, followed by Mexico.[33][34]

Maybe there are generic solutions for this (Maybe squid? I really don't know anything about these things) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_(software)
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jaredmauch 2054 days ago
The numbers are to be believed, I can tweet usage graphs aside from what's in the slides. 5Mbps per subscriber on average. Some pull as much as 20Mbps and the big peaks are when my kids download games. Customers could get that speed if they hard wired too but they don't.
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mcny 2054 days ago
My reading of this thread is hlieberman thinks your usage will eventually go up when (if?) people's habits change.

> I wonder if the utilization/customer is in part because of people's habits still being leftover from the WISP days. My ISP gives me ~950Mbit/s, and it's not unusual for my house to be using 70% of that with all the video streaming going on, especially in 2020. A couple of customers like me, your bandwidth rates are gonna start hurting really bad.

The child comment is questioning hlieberman's usage of over 600 Mbps, not your charts. I guess you could throttle users with some kind of QoS? Personally, I don't think data caps would help here. Thoughts?

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