[opendtv] Re: Report: T-Mobile Now Has the Best Wireless Network | Fox Business
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 08:35:39 -0400
On Aug 5, 2017, at 8:40 PM, Manfredi, Albert E <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
There was not much concern about net neutrality until fixed broadband
speeds became fast enough to support a decent QOS for program length
streams.
Well, at least, with herculean efforts, Craig has finally grasped this much.
Of course, before then, there was also plenty of competition among ISPs,
thanks only to the mandated neutrality of the telephone lines they depended
on. But that's not the case with broadband, Craig.
What crap. the use of modems to access the Internet was all but dead by the
time you watched your first video stream on a PC. Like myself, you signed up
for DSL service, as this was fast enough to handle everything the Internet
offered. Why did you upgrade from DSL to Verizon FIOS broadband?
And please do not tell us that they forced you to do this because they are
trying to kill DSL. The answer is you finally decide you needed faster
broadband to move from SDTV to HDTV.
What took you so long?
Yes true Bert. There are many people who ONLY have cellular data services,
It's true, there is a segment of the population that only ever uses
smartphones. The digital illiterates.
?
So the Millennials are "Digital Illiterates?
Do you not understand that you can buy a cellular plan with unlimited data and
Zero Rated bits for streaming video services?
And true, that's the extent of their Internet use. But this hardly makes the
case that 4G is a realistic option for general purpose home broadband service.
Never said it was. But it is a viable option for those who cannot afford both a
fixed and wireless broadband service. And increasingly wireless broadband will
become a viable option to wired.
All you have to do, Craig, is spend some quality time reading up on this. See
what the caveats are, see what people have experienced, when attempting to
use cellular as their only broadband service.
So there are now about 850 MILLION people using fixed broadband around the
planet, and 3.2 BILLION with wireless broadband. In the U.S. There are more
than 100 million that have both.
We have all experienced the evolutionary growing pains Bert
The terrible quality of early MPEG-2 systems that tried to squeeze both SD and
HD so hard that the quality was worse than NTSC.
The long wait to start an Internet stream while the buffers were filled, and
the constant buffering interruptions.
And we have all experience the RAPID solutions to the Internet problems thanks
to competition and investment, while the quality of the locked down broadcast
systems has improved gradually, if at all.
Ironically, the main problems with loss of service are happening on the
fixed ISP networks when there is too much demand on the servers - e.g.
the inability to support the demand when HBO airs a new episode of Game
of Thrones.
I already explained this to you too, Craig! In your example, and many similar
ones, IT WAS NOT "the Internet" that got overloaded at all. The problem was
restricted to only SOME of the SERVERS of that ONE STEAMING WEB SITE.
The core networks, and even the last mile networks, have kept pace rather
well, in fact.
Which is what I said above. But the fact remains that we are still experiencing
growing pains as the Internet displaces legacy services. The good news is that
the marketplace is driving both the innovation and the investment.
Craig, let's cut to the chase. In technical matters, you can't just sell
verbose prose by the pound. No one believes you. You first have to educate
yourself, and then, be concise and accurate. You can't keep reverting back to
exactly the same misconceptions you had a decade or more ago. How is it you
can't move ahead, instead of retrenching backwards? Is it because that's the
easiest way to push out copious prose by the pound? Just recycle words from
10 years ago?
Another selfie...
Regards
Craig
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