COVID19

COVID-19 has caused a major disruption to everyday life and with that comes just about every job sector. One large area affected by the latest pandemic is the internet! The internet as it stands wasn’t built to handle so many people at home streaming Netflix and video conferences. As a result many people all over the world are experiencing slow internet speeds and intermittent outages. To counter this, big industry players like Youtube are taking steps to reduce load on the Internet as a whole in an effort to make the internet more enjoyable for everyone! One step Youtube is taking is defaulting every user’s video quality to the lowest quality. This one small step can have a huge impact on the bandwidth consumed by on user and many users!