As Americans retreat to their home offices to try and get some work done and students transition to remote classrooms, the internet is being subjected to an unprecedented strain. In the U.S., our online infrastructure is ill-equipped to handle the load
Photo: Tero Vesalainen/Getty Images/iStockphoto As Americans retreat to their home offices to try and get some work done and students transition to remote classrooms, the internet is being subjected to an unprecedented strain. Meetings that were once conducted in person are now a grid of tiny video boxes on a screen. Streaming video makes up the lion’s share of overall bandwidth usage, with file sizes exponentially larger than text, still images, and audio files.
My upstream traffic, however, is entirely fine. The disparity leads me to believe that my horrific download speeds are not an issue with my individual connection to my ISP, but with my ISP as a whole. My experience is not unique. A lot of people are teleconferencing, and without the watchful eyes of management, some are probably streaming TV and movies as they work too.
This is why it is your duty, as a member of American society, to downgrade your bitrate. For the good of the nation, for the benefit of your neighbors with subpar connections, it is vital that you do your part. See how each number gets significantly smaller? That’s math! For every 4K video you’re streaming, you could run four videos at 1,080p or nine videos at 720p.
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