Japan and China ping time observations
From Shanghai/area to Japan/Tokyo area.
OCN/NTT 215-96ms 124.102.42.x
OCN/NTT was quite disappointing as ping times were drastically different, between 215 and 96ms as mentioned.
Softbank (BBTECH) 52ms 60.106.165.x 60.69.227.x 219.101.163.x
Softbank consistently performed well with China.
So-net 42.8ms 118.238.215.x
So-net was the lowest ping we've seen to Japan.
Asahi.net 91.9ms 221.113.95.x (Chiba)........
Ubuntu Linux Mint Debian Redhat Youtube Cannot Play HD or 4K videos, dropped frames or high CPU usage with Nvidia or AMD Driver
In a lot of distros, vdpau which accelerates video through the GPUis often not installed even in recent distros. This will result in Firefox with Youtube dropping frames when you check the "Stats for Nerds" and to the eye as jerky or slower video playback due to the dropped frames.
Some sites will say that because you are watching VP09 that there is no GPU support, but with vdpau installed and enabled, many GPUs will still be able to use hardware decoding for 4K........