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Mar. 22nd, 2020 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmalephENACOM (Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones, approximately the argentinian FCC I guess?) is now telling people that the unprecedented numbers of people staying at home is taxing bandwidth infrastructure, so people should be more measured in their internet used. OK. Except that their list of recommendations is like... "use SMS instead of WhatsApp" and "Make your text messages precise to avoid a back-and-forth conversation", alongside "limit your use of streaming video, or lower its quality"
These things are multiple orders of magnitude apart! There is absolutely no way text messages matter if people can still use streaming video (but, y'know, a limited amount thereof). One episode of a TV show on netflix should more than cover any chat apps I choose to use for the entirety of quarantine. Or the year.
Am I missing something here? Does sending pure text over the internet have an impact on bandwidth that's several orders of magnitude greater than what you'd expect from its size in bytes, or is this just completely nonsensical?
These things are multiple orders of magnitude apart! There is absolutely no way text messages matter if people can still use streaming video (but, y'know, a limited amount thereof). One episode of a TV show on netflix should more than cover any chat apps I choose to use for the entirety of quarantine. Or the year.
Am I missing something here? Does sending pure text over the internet have an impact on bandwidth that's several orders of magnitude greater than what you'd expect from its size in bytes, or is this just completely nonsensical?
