[ericfrederich]

I came on here looking for an article about all of the network issues last night streaming the game. Couldn't find one so I'll rant here in the comments ;-).

In my neighborhood we have 3 ISPs but one is only just recently available (Google Fiber) so there's not many on it as we already have Spectrum and AT&T fiber available. Lots of people complaining across different streaming services (YouTube TV, Hulu, Paramount+, etc) and also across different internet providers (Spectrum and AT&T... just 1 data point for Google Fiber). Lots of buffering, scaling down to extremely low bitrates where you couldn't even make out how many timeouts were left and could barely make out the score.

Sending each customer their own bespoke video stream works fine for movies and shows, but apparently works terribly for popular live events.

Some sort of multicast solution would fix this... but then theres DRM.