• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    My internet isn’t great (about 15 megabit), and HBO has really bad compression artifacts and buffers really often, whereas Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney, etc all do just fine.

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      13 hours ago

      I’m not saying it’s fact but it’s not unrealistic to think your provider might be giving preference to some of those on your list.

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        2 hours ago

        It seems more likely that HBO doesnt have many customers in the 15 Mbps range, so they haven’t invested much time on optimizing the experience.

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          2 hours ago

          I’m curious about this statistic. Got a source?

          It’d make a pretty interesting read, especially if we start comparing production quality of shows between the streaming services.

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        7 hours ago

        They shouldn’t be. My internet comes from a WISP antenna network that I help manage connected to Fiberlight.

        We’re a small neighborhood across a lake from any meaningful cities, so we have a 150-ft tower on either side of the lake. One side is connected to the fiber and the other has directional antennas aimed at receivers for each house.