| ▲ | googlryas 5 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sounds like a recipe for dissatisfied users "Why's my internet slow? Oh, YouTube is uploading a bunch of stuff to other people" "How did I hit my bandwidth cap for the month already? Oh, youtube is..." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hamiecod 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
But bandwidth is extremely cheap in 2025 to the point that I do not even check my bandwidth usage and I have never reached my 2TB/month bandwidth cap in the last 3 years. Secondly, the p2p system will be advantageous for the videos that most people watch, i.e., popular videos. This implies that the "popular" video will have a large number of concurrent users who are transmitting a small part of video to just 3 other peers who are then transmitting the same part to 3 other peers. This way, the bandwidth usage for uploading is reduced. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | apitman 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Those problems are implementation specific | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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