Combatting Canadian ISP Latency: Building a Zero-Buffering Video Player in React

When you ship a video player that buffers, users leave within 3 seconds. I learned this the hard way while building a streaming dashboard in Canada. If you've ever had to handle video streams over Bell or Rogers networks during peak hours, you know that ISP throttling and spontaneous packet drops are a developer's worst nightmare. After weeks of debugging choppy playback across 15+ device types under strict network latency, I found a set of patterns that obliterated buffering almost entirely. He