[LINK] why your internet gets so frickin' slow every afternoon

[Brendan]

On 03/10/2016 10:59 AM, David Boxall wrote:
> I'm beginning to feel really, really old. ;)
>
> <http://www.everythinggeraldton.com.au/geraldton-news/2016/3/7/these-graphs-explains-why-your-internet-gets-so-frickin-slow-every-afternoon>

>> It's no secret that TV viewership in Australia has been tumbling
>> for some time now (...). In fact, around half of all free-to-air TV
>> watchers are now over 50. In the coveted 25-34 demographic, a
>> whopping 20.7% watch NO FREE TO AIR TV.

We have not owned a television for 15 years. We went without for a while from 95 (by choice) but then someone donated us a TV because they couldn't bear the thought of us missing out. (lack of something to watch them on did not stop relatives buying us DVDs as presents though...)

I would have liked to keep my children on a low entertainment diet, but now we have something far worse than free to air - the internet. Where content is not curated, and any attempt to manage their viewing (apart from trust) is either hideously time consuming, laughably restrictive (white listing) and/or plain ineffective (Hola anyone? - third parties leeching off the hola free vpn one of my children set up seems to be the reason our data was always blowing out) or some combination of the above. Aside: I think politicians vastly underestimate the administrative load that the internet causes parents.

Otherwise innocuous content (eg minecraft walkthroughs) are peppered with inappropriate language and, at times, concepts. Any attempt to simply turn it off is met with wails about how they need it for school (don't get me started) or that their games won't work or how they need to download 30GB for the latest game patch (Star Citizen).