• bjorney@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Read the 2nd sentence of the article. They are talking about 120gb CoD patches

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      8 months ago

      Still not a big deal. Literally why CDNs and bitorrent tech exist. Ads, spam, and crawlers totally eclipse this traffic. This is just the ISPs posturing to raise rates.

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        8 months ago

        Literally why CDNs and bitorrent tech exist

        Neither of these reduces the amount of bandwidth an end user requires to download a 120gb file. If anything torrenting makes it more problematic because the upload is spread amongst a dozen low density residential users rather than a single high throughput datacenter

        This is just the ISPs posturing to raise rates.

        Ya absolutely. Doesn’t change the fact that ‘gaming uses very little bandwidth’ is only considering the UDP packets sent during an online gaming session and ignoring all the other sources of usage.

        I literally have 5-10gb of updates queued up the first time I open steam nowadays

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          8 months ago

          That’s still not that much data. Advertisements and crawlers constantly use up far more bandwidth. Fight the real problems instead of blaming the users.

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            That’s still not that much data

            Gaming is 10-20% of the ISPs total network load, and the MW3 launch constituted like a 110% increase over base network load, so yes it’s a lot of data.

            Advertisements and crawlers constantly use up far more bandwidth.

            Crawlers rely on private connections between datacenters, very little of that traffic touches residential ISPs

            Fight the real problems instead of blaming the users.

            Literally no one is blaming users - There are plenty enough reasons to hate most ISPs, we don’t have to make up facts to find new ways to be mad.