Why slow internet is unhealthy

Suddenly stopped due to a problem with the internet video anyone can ruffle. But irritation and spoil the mood is not the worst. It turns out that poor communication can cause health problems.

Slow internet annoying everyone. And when watching video - even more so. Ericsson's engineers did not differ from the rest in this respect, and so they decided to investigate the effect of retarding the video to users. First of all scientists interested in how the behavior of potential buyers.

As it turned out, the stress caused by an attempt to upload a video using the low-speed mobile Internet is comparable with the stress of the test while watching a horror movie.

Experiment, conducted by Sweden, called "Stress at delays video» (Stress of Streaming Delays). The researchers filmed EEG and cardiogram test when viewing videos using the mobile Internet. Delayed video increases the heart rate by 38%. A repeated delay caused by buffering, double the level of stress. Thus, a person feels a strong emotional stress, which adversely affects both the nervous system and heart. This is comparable to the exhausting run, that's just the last person can be trained, and slow Internet will annoy everyone. However, this applies to short delays.

When the researchers observed the people who have the video freezes for more than six seconds, it was found that the stress level is rising, then falling. As a result, these participants showed non-verbal signs that do not want to watch the current material, and began to be distracted by something else.

The results of the study are available here. But you yourself know that, should an episode favorite series a couple of times to hang because of connection problems, see his desire disappears.

In general, you should not suffer because of the low speed and injure his own psyche. On Android, you can use one of the following contact applications to save bandwidth. Necessary exist for methods to accelerate the Internet desktop computers. And in the end, there is always Opera with its efficient compression algorithms and methods to include similar functions in Chrome.