Streaming with contraints
Streaming media is not only where we are headed but where we are. Looking into the future I have decided against SAT for the MH simply because I know the future will be all streaming media, and SAT ha...
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It's expensive, to convince people NOT to over-use it. If Cellular broadband were cheap and unlimited, weekends at the CG would see huge spikes in data volume, which would cause the same type of bottlenecks I'm describing at large sporting events. Sure, you always have bandwidth when you need it, but only because data caps and high cost keep most people off.
Lobstah wrote:
Slow streaming at a sporting event has everything to do with money, and just about nothing to do with bandwidth. The bandwidth could be made available, but why would a carrier do that to accommodate a spike in traffic during an event. In addition to that, some of the issues are with servers, not bandwidth, so it becomes more of a complex issue. And you, the user, have no idea if it's a server issue or a bandwidth issue.
Carriers have the bandwidth. It costs them money to turn it on/increase it. And they're not going to do that without being able to make money on it, which, btw, I am fine with.
You want more bandwidth while you're traveling?...the issue isn't that you can't get it, it's that it's expensive. For awhile, I have two hotspots, one on ATT, the other on Verizon, so that I'd rarely, if ever, be without at least ONE connection, and I'd rarely be limited by bandwidth. I don't need that now, so I dropped the Verizon plan.
Jim
