Netflix might be having 20000 TV-episodes and 3000 movies, but they are not evenly viewed.
I bet that a caching box with even a mere 1TB disk could cover 90% of the usage.
If 10000 viewers want to see the latest House of Cards, there is no need for sending 10000 streams from one ISP to another.
Heck, even some sort of bittorrent could be used, if each viewer would allocate say 50GB for shared content.
I have a thin adsl from one ISP and a 4G to another, and a traceroute to netflix leads to two different servers, each in my country, Denmark.
The adsl is even only 3 hops away.
BTW: Why do I have to type <br> to have line breaks? Why not just enter enter?
The little guy may be right.
However, so is the pedestrian wanting to cross at a pedestrian crossing.
It doesn't help having the right of way, if the 18-wheeler doesn't want to obey the rules.
Leif
Because of the congestion of the roads, the driving is less important than keeping drivers and passengers going nuts.
Before getting dvd player in the backseat the kids asked "When are we there?" Now they ask "When are we going?":-)
Lenne
Boss got office 2007 a few days ago.
We still haven't found the print button.
Well, now he knows he can use ^P, but anyway.
I'm sure he won't use any of the new "features"...
Lenne
Then the will demand that only digitally connected speakers with internal decoding circuitry, and which will self-destruct if tampered with, are allowed to play the music.
So we are back to the early '70 where I recorded music off the radio using a microphone in front of the speaker, because the tube/valve radio didn't have a line-out signal.
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Netflix might be having 20000 TV-episodes and 3000 movies, but they are not evenly viewed. I bet that a caching box with even a mere 1TB disk could cover 90% of the usage.
If 10000 viewers want to see the latest House of Cards, there is no need for sending 10000 streams from one ISP to another.
Heck, even some sort of bittorrent could be used, if each viewer would allocate say 50GB for shared content.
I have a thin adsl from one ISP and a 4G to another, and a traceroute to netflix leads to two different servers, each in my country, Denmark. The adsl is even only 3 hops away.
BTW: Why do I have to type <br> to have line breaks? Why not just enter enter?
The little guy may be right. However, so is the pedestrian wanting to cross at a pedestrian crossing. It doesn't help having the right of way, if the 18-wheeler doesn't want to obey the rules. Leif
Aren't all voip companies doing more or less the same?
How many ways are there to connect voip to pstn?
Leif
Because of the congestion of the roads, the driving is less important than keeping drivers and passengers going nuts. :-)
Before getting dvd player in the backseat the kids asked "When are we there?" Now they ask "When are we going?"
Lenne
Boss got office 2007 a few days ago. We still haven't found the print button. Well, now he knows he can use ^P, but anyway. I'm sure he won't use any of the new "features"... Lenne
Once in a while, somebody gets killed when trying to inflate a tire using the wrong units.
w as_then/life_society/gimli_glider
There is also the "Gimli Glider", an which ran out of fuel because of the fuel was calculated in pounds instead of liters.
See http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-69-240-1155-20/that_
Then the will demand that only digitally connected speakers with internal decoding circuitry, and which will self-destruct if tampered with, are allowed to play the music.
So we are back to the early '70 where I recorded music off the radio using a microphone in front of the speaker, because the tube/valve radio didn't have a line-out signal.
Lenne