Vid.me has announced that they are shutting down on December 15th 2017, saying that they could not find a path to sustainability.
This news should be of concern as content creators have been getting increasingly frustrated with Youtube's algorithms that demonetize their videos and this means they have one less alternative to turn towards.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday December 05 2017, @09:48PM (4 children)
The FCC-imposed 33.6 kbps uplink limit on v.90 dial-up explains ratios of downstream rate to upstream rate on the order of 2:1. But what explains acceptance of ADSL ratios greater than 2:1?
(Score: 2) by jdccdevel on Tuesday December 05 2017, @11:58PM (3 children)
Time Divsion Duplexing (TDD) [wikipedia.org]
Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) [wikipedia.org]
Consumer demand for Download vs Upload data (dictating the division for the two above)
and physics [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday December 06 2017, @03:51AM (2 children)
Again, what causes a demand ratio in excess of 2:1?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 07 2017, @01:45PM (1 child)
Most people don't run servers at home.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Tuesday December 19 2017, @01:14AM
Why is this, other than that home ISPs ban it? And if you claim that home ISPs banning it is reason enough, you have begged the question.