Sony just said they’re slowing their download speeds to preserve internet capacity for everyone. Is the internet a finite resource? Why can’t everyone just use the internet at once?
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The internet is like a postal service where you get to ask the library to deliver you copies of their books, copies of the daily newspaper from the newspaper stand, or a shopping list from a shop.
The library/newspaper stand/shop has a limited amount of postmen they can talk to over a given time in order to give them the requested packages to over a given time, the post office has a limited space to store the packages to be sent, and the packages often arrive from far away, so they have to be sent over many post offices until they arrive.
This is basically the internet, but all those people above are computers so everything is really fast. The cables have an upper limit of how much data they can send, and the computers have a limited power to process all the packages they have to send forward somewhere.
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