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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
If it's not affecting their usage why would they care though?
I don't care about buffer bloat and I'm hardly undemanding, though I'm not hammering my connection with tons of P2P / Usenet connections drowning everything else out as a general rule  |
Because for the longest time, download speeds was the biggest factor in their usage. Using the PC example, it was like RAM - there was a time when if you wanted your PC to go faster, you put more RAM in it before doing anything else. Once RAM quantities became "good enough" for most, that changed to other things - SSD's, price, battery life, etc.
Getting back to broadband, if the download speeds on Virgin and BT/Sky/etc. are so large to be irrelevant to most, then other things will suddenly become more important - probably price first, then upload speeds, then latency, etc.