On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 6:17 AM Livingood, Jason via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:

> My experience over a home internet fiber connection wasn’t great (like everyone else’s) but my son was watching it over his mobile device without any issues.

That may be an interesting data point – because mobile networks typically rate-shape video streams.

JL

Perhaps, sometimes , less is more.

Perhaps, the “greedy” nature of adaptive bit-rate always trying to bid-up the data rate is counter productive… at a system level.