Reply to post: Re: streams rather than downloads?

British fixed broadband is cheap … and, er, fairly nasty – global survey

Joe Harrison

Re: streams rather than downloads?

Streams are fine if you have a reliable connection. Some of us though, on strands of old wet rural copper, can get quite decent speeds but with random outages from seconds to minutes when the wind blows the wrong way or the tree gods get angry.

When this happens I would much rather my download paused than have an unscheduled tea break during the film.

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