I am staying out a hotel out of state, and having troubles getting a good Internet connection. The property manager admitted tonight that they are lacking in capacity, but also said that people who watch movies online - like NetFlix - are the ones really slowing things down and possibly violating usage terms.
When I mentioned that I listen to radio shows on the Internet he quickly said, “Well, that is as bad as watching streaming movies!”
Yes, probably meant that high definition time-based live multimedia streaming is extremely hungry in general because of the protocols it uses rather than say visiting SP.
I was referring to the owner (complaining) I missed out the word [he] but those things tend to happen when you are word-blind. He was correct in a sense regarding time-based live multimedia streaming generally consuming several times more bandwidth than casual surfing. He was making a generic statement I would assume.
Like was mentioned several times before usually such video typically contains an audio and visual track combined thus usually has a higher overhead than audio alone. They make use of different protocols too, which also effects throughput. Then you have the perceived slowdown due to the very nature of the format itself - nobody wants clunky frame rate and chopped-up sound (latency).
No, I think he thinks there is no difference between me listening to a radio station online and him watching Netflix on real-time on his pc at home.
(If anyone is “hogging” bandwidth where I am staying at, I am certainly not to blame for listening to streaming radio stations online!)
Like was mentioned several times before usually such video typically contains an audio and visual track combined thus usually has a higher overhead than audio alone. They make use of different protocols too, which also effects throughput. Then you have the perceived slowdown due to the very nature of the format itself - nobody wants clunky frame rate and chopped-up sound (latency).
Do you know of any hard numbers (or references to them) that I could show him?
Or do you know of anything for my MacBook that I could install to show him that it isn’t me that is the issue?
The only real hard number here is the actual consumption. I’m sure there are programs that can count that for a Mac, have you checked out the app store?
In terms of a printed number, that really doesn’t work – netflix especially uses variable bit rates to “tune” the quality of the stream to your connection, though they might well publish some minimums on their tech support page. Audio is typically easier to judge – just look at the bitrate of the stream as they tend to be constant.
