Poll of the Day > *Pause a video for a good hour so it can buffer.*

(+) Yeah! (+)

*Hits play and watch about 10 seconds before it needs to buffer again.*

I kind of miss the days when you could actually buffer videos...
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using the site with couch as the 1st part of the name?
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No, happens even on YouTube to me on occasion. Internet here is just awful.
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But do you really need your pr0n in 4K?
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Just download the porn so you don't have to wait for it everytime.
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It was 720p and was not pr0n.
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A lot of providers throttle streaming so you can't buffer.
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I know. They didn't used to. I understand why they do it too. It's just it sucks when you have such bad internet...
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I remember when Youtube was new and I only had a 56K AOL connection, it literally took me 2 hours or so to buffer a 22-minute anime episode.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

A lot of providers throttle streaming so you can't buffer.

it's more like since everyone uses HTML5 now, buffering doesn't function the same as it used to.

buffering now is just the next 20-40 or so seconds, and not the entire video like it used to be
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Metalsonic66 posted...

I remember when Youtube was new and I only had a 56K AOL connection, it literally took me 2 hours or so to buffer a 22-minute anime episode.

Yeah, back then I remember letting a 5 minute dragonball z flash video buffer for a half an hour before we would watch it, I think it was only like 12 mb lulz, fuck man this was like in 2000 or something.

Brutality it was called, I just looked it up and watched it again, was so cool back then heh.
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

A lot of providers throttle streaming so you can't buffer.

Shouldn't that be illegal with net neutrality?
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Yellow posted...

Kyuubi4269 posted...

A lot of providers throttle streaming so you can't buffer.

Shouldn't that be illegal with net neutrality?

It's not really throttling. First, all it does is stop once it buffers a certain amount in advance. Second, if it's slowing down for someone, it's probably slowed down for everyone or that person's internet is just too slow. Third, even if it was throttling, it's these people who are selling the services that are throttling, not your ISP (Internet Service Provider (Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc)), so it's not really a problem. If anything it's good.

The real problem about net neutrality going away would be your ISP saying that this site in particular is going to be slow, even though they can totally handle you. This forces you to either deal with it being slow, if you can access it at all, or switch to the service that the ISP has a deal with. If someone wants to throttle your connection to them, then that's their choice, because the only concern is that you may stop using their service. They aren't trying to control the market like what your ISP would be doing by forcing you to use their service or the service they have a deal with.

YouTube could totally throttle everyone if they wanted, but they wouldn't because they would lose business. However there may be times that they are forced to do that because perhaps too many people are connecting at once, so they could throttle it so their lines aren't completely overloaded.

Some file storing services I think throttle their download speeds and then give faster speeds to paying customers. This is fine, because again, you can simply use another file storing service like Google Drive or something. You're not forced to use say, Apple's cloud. (Apple doesn't throttle either, this is just an example because I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention the ones I know of that do.)
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