Streaming services and local bandwidth

[Dr Who]

How does one find out where content is hosted for streaming services? I ask this question because as fibre becomes more common so to does the probability that the service will have great local speeds and poor international speeds. So where does this leave users who want to stream content from the likes of youtube/Showmax/Netflix/Amazon Prime?

Currently I am getting fibre installed soon but I have been on many different business packages and providers over the last 3 years all with similar local to International speed differences. It seems that ADSL has very similar local/Int bandwidth speeds while fibre can be 10:1 difference. Where does this leave users who want to use fibre to stream content?

 

[Johnatan56]

Usually your ISP will connect any data it can to a cache that is hosted locally.
Things used by a multitude of users will get cached, Netflix/Showmax, popular YouTube videos, Steam, etc. are all already cached.
The issue with international is due to TCP/IP window for small downloads (which will scale), single thread performance over distance which can be alleviate with more threads, etc.
The international issue should be at about 10Mbps and up, depending on latency.

Also, that 10:1 difference is nonsense, it depends on the ISP/provider, higher speeds will have more issues maxing out due to limitations, but this definitely won't apply to things like streaming services. If anything, most fiber offerings should be cheaper and offer better service as they don't pay Telkom IPC which is one of the/if not the biggest cost currently for providers, the exception is OpenServe which still goes through IPC.