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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button and enable notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos we've all been there you're watching tech quickie checking out your favorite twitch stream or on a Skype date with that Rando that you met on tinder when suddenly and it's just so frustrating this is commonly caused by a slow connection whenever you stream something from the internet that stream attempts to read ahead filling up a local buffer on your device which serves to ensure smooth playback if your connection is too slow this buffer won't feel quickly enough causing those dreaded freezes which your stream may or may not be smart enough to recover from on its own so you give up on streaming video for a bit and plop down in front of your good old TV that's connected to a cable box that you're paying an outrageous sum of money each month to use as you flip through an array of HD channels you have a sudden thought cable TV these days is digital just like video over the Internet it's a stream of ones and zeros that hit a cable box but does some decoding and then spits out the popular reality show due to were for you to enjoy but for some reason cable TV never seems to buffer like internet streams do even though many of the channels are in bandwidth hungry high-definition so what gives well it turns out that although that compressed digital video that reaches both your TV and your computer screen is the need similar in terms of the speed in megabits per second that it requires the way it's delivered to either your cable TV box versus your cable modem is quite different even though they're both entering your house on literally the exact same coaxial cable you see the signals that pass through your cable connection are divided up into different frequencies with clear separation between frequencies that carry cable TV and ones that carry Internet data would you come in more about up here and it turns out that each channel on your cable TV Guide actually corresponds to its own completely separate frequency inside your coaxial cable and each frequency is dedicated to one who don't leave on channel additionally whatever channel that you're tuned in to is showing the same thing at all times to everyone receiving the signal meaning that unlike streaming there's no server sitting out there somewhere waiting for a user to request something instead your TV provider just blasts the same signals down the pipes meaning that live content is waiting for you as soon as you tune in to a specific channel this also means that the route that your TV signal takes to your home is much simpler it goes from a distribution center through a few nodes and into your house on a dedicated frequency without having to compete with a bunch of other traffic or respond to anything that the user does but when you try to stream something your video has to fight with tons of other internet traffic it might be coming from a far away server that isn't well maintained it might be routed through a bunch of hops that add additional lag time and there might just be tons of people hogging bandwidth in your neighborhood because EA just dropped another triple-a title that everyone wants to try out and subsequently complain about on the internet using up even more of your bandwidth standard digital cable TV can still definitely run into signal issues though if there's a problem at your cable providers facilities or with a satellite hanging out up in orbit but all of this does still add up to a more direct pathway to your screen with minimal congestion or latency it's almost enough for you to keep spending a hundred bucks a month so you can watch happy days reruns at 3:00 a.m. almost checkout private Internet access VPN not only does P ia work on up to five devices at once hiding your true IP address it allows you to bypass to your restrictions and say ship by making you appear as though you are connecting from somewhere else and it's got all kinds of other great functionality to it blocks unwanted connections to help prevent attacks it Auto blocks all traffic if the VPN disconnects it keeps your data out of the hands of advertisers and other snoops who are tracking your activity it prevents DNS leaks and even includes mace P is built-in malware blocker it supports multiple VPN protocols and they've got apps for Windows Mac Android iOS Linux and even a Chrome extension with support for more platforms coming soon P ia has over three thousand servers in 28 countries and doesn't log user activity so what are you waiting for check them out today at the link below speaking of almost I almost had an integration to give to you guys right now but it wasn't there so you're off the hook so thanks for watching guys you can like dislike check out other channels leave a comment with video suggestions and subscribe you can and you will