• Luccus@feddit.org
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    6 hours ago

    What is the point of paying for the pipe if you don’t use everything you can?! There is no reason they shouldn’t push it through faster.

    This is the reason why I leave the shower running in every hotel I visit. And at the buffet, I tell the waiter to fetch me a trash can so I can actually get rid of the whole thing. If I can, I usually leave both a heater and an air conditioner running in the hallway.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      16 minutes ago

      None of these are the same comparison. There is no “wasting” Internet speed.

      The comparison would be better to turning on the faucet halfway to fill your cup slower. What’s the point. You’re using the same amount of water. Just open it all the way and fill your cup.

      The cup doesn’t keep overflowing with data. You’re downloading files, once those files are done downloading it’s done. It’s not like it “forgets” and accidentally downloads the whole internet. What a weird way of thinking the internet works

    • acchariya@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Well clearly you drank the Comcast kool-aid. Bandwidth is nothing like clean water supply, food, or generated electricity. It’s more like traffic on a highway. Sure, there is a finite amount of room on the highway, but until you hit that at any one time, there is room on the highway for more traffic.

      It could be a problem if everyone was playing flight simulator at the same time but they are not.