WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.680 Thanks for watching Techquickie. Click the subscribe button, then enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos. 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:14.460 We've all been there. You're watching Techquickie, checking out your favorite Twitch stream or on a Skype date with that rando that you met on 00:00:14.460 --> 00:00:18.320 Tinder when suddenly, and it's just so 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:20.360 frustrating, 00:00:20.360 --> 00:00:24.260 this is commonly caused by a slow connection. 00:00:24.520 --> 00:00:29.360 Whenever you stream something from the internet, that stream attempts to read ahead 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:35.240 filling up a local buffer on your device, which serves to ensure smooth playback. 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:42.460 If your connection is too slow, this buffer won't fill quickly enough, causing those dreaded freezes, 00:00:42.820 --> 00:00:47.800 which your stream may or may not be smart enough to recover from on its own. 00:00:48.280 --> 00:00:54.080 So you give up on streaming video for a bit and plop down in front of your good old TV 00:00:54.080 --> 00:00:58.860 that's connected to a cable box that you're paying an outrageous sum of money each month to use. 00:00:58.860 --> 00:01:03.160 As you flip through an array of HD channels, you have a sudden thought. 00:01:04.010 --> 00:01:09.230 Cable TV these days is digital, just like video over the internet. 00:01:09.490 --> 00:01:15.570 It's a stream of ones and zeros that hit a cable box that does some decoding and then 00:01:15.890 --> 00:01:19.610 spits out the popular reality show du jour for you to 00:01:21.370 --> 00:01:23.640 enjoy. 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:30.000 But for some reason, cable TV never seems to buffer like internet streams do, even though 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.560 many of the channels are in bandwidth-hungry high definition. 00:01:33.820 --> 00:01:35.260 So what gives? 00:01:35.260 --> 00:01:44.220 Well, it turns out that although that compressed digital video that reaches both your TV and your computer screen is indeed similar in terms of the 00:01:44.460 --> 00:01:51.000 speed in megabits per second that it requires, the way it's delivered to either your cable TV box 00:01:51.360 --> 00:01:56.780 versus your cable modem is quite different, even though they're both entering your house on 00:01:57.340 --> 00:01:59.760 literally the exact same code. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:06.680 Coaxial cable. You see, the signals that pass through your cable connection are divided up into different frequencies, 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:13.100 with clear separation between frequencies that carry cable TV and ones that carry internet data, 00:02:13.140 --> 00:02:18.680 which you can learn more about up here. And it turns out that each channel on your cable TV guide 00:02:19.140 --> 00:02:21.140 actually corresponds to its own 00:02:21.660 --> 00:02:23.580 completely separate frequency 00:02:23.580 --> 00:02:29.720 inside your coaxial cable, and each frequency is dedicated to one and only one channel. 00:02:31.440 --> 00:02:37.540 Additionally, whatever channel that you're tuned into is showing the same thing at all times to 00:02:37.980 --> 00:02:42.780 everyone receiving the signal, meaning that unlike streaming, there's no server 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.380 sitting out there somewhere waiting for a user to request something. 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:50.200 Instead, your TV provider just 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:54.280 blasts the same signals down the pipes, meaning that live 00:02:54.540 --> 00:02:58.840 content is waiting for you as soon as you tune in to a specific channel. 00:02:58.940 --> 00:03:00.500 This also means that the 00:03:00.500 --> 00:03:04.380 route that your TV signal takes to your home is much simpler. 00:03:04.380 --> 00:03:10.460 It goes from a distribution center, through a few nodes, and into your house on a dedicated frequency 00:03:10.980 --> 00:03:14.140 without having to compete with a bunch of other traffic, or 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:17.320 respond to anything that the user does. 00:03:17.720 --> 00:03:22.860 But when you try to stream something, your video has to fight with tons of other internet traffic. 00:03:22.860 --> 00:03:30.340 It might be coming from a faraway server that isn't well maintained. It might be routed through a bunch of hops that add additional 00:03:30.500 --> 00:03:40.080 lag time, and there might just be tons of people hogging bandwidth in your neighborhood because EA just dropped another AAA title that everyone wants to try out and 00:03:41.220 --> 00:03:46.620 subsequently complain about on the internet, using up even more of your bandwidth. 00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:51.820 Standard digital cable TV can still definitely run into signal issues, though, 00:03:51.820 --> 00:03:57.380 if there's a problem at your cable provider's facilities or with a satellite hanging out up in orbit. 00:03:57.600 --> 00:04:00.420 But all of this does still add up 00:04:00.500 --> 00:04:05.500 to a more direct pathway to your screen with minimal congestion or latency. 00:04:05.620 --> 00:04:11.660 It's almost enough for you to keep spending a hundred bucks a month so you can watch Happy Days reruns at 3 a.m. 00:04:14.130 --> 00:04:15.450 Almost. 00:04:15.450 --> 00:04:21.330 Check out Private Internet Access VPN. 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