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 consists of MANY different networks.
What Sony is doing is preserving THEIR Internet connection.
When you view something over the Internet, it comes to you in “Packets”. It takes a small slice of time for the Packet to go from one device (Router, Switch, Gateway,…) to the next and during that time nothing else can travel on THAT network segment. Everyone else has to wait. The bigger the “thing” being transferred the more Packets it takes. Now, the networks are FAST and are designed to weave Packets for different destinations together to no one user can appear to monopolize the link. But if enough people are trying to get content from one source, it starts to become a problem.
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