Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

eganist wrote: post #3

dogma1138 wrote: post #2

Does it mean they’ll pay me back for the 4K package?

Sounds like it's effective immediately, so if you don't like it, cut your plan. No one's on contract.

you pay a month in advance

Re: Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

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Post by myu701 » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 7:46 PM UTC

Does anyone know of public ISP dashboards that show used/total capacity on their network in terms of customer usage?

I'm sure its trivial for an internal employee to pull up solarwinds or whatever, but I'd be curious to see if these ISPs are merely running above normal, running hot, barely hanging on with intermittent "isp brownouts" etc.

This is probably a pipe dream but not gonna get any questions answered if I don't ask.

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Post by lm28469 » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 7:46 PM UTC

dogma1138 wrote: post #2

Does it mean they’ll pay me back for the 4K package?

What if it's still 4k with reduced bit rate ? It's not like netflix 4k looks good anyway, chances are you won't tell the difference

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Post by noodlesUK » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 7:47 PM UTC

Are there any illustrations of the volumes of traffic that are being sent through core networks for netflix? I was under the impression the vast majority of traffic was served at the edge.

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Post by wmf » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 7:49 PM UTC

myu701 wrote: post #5

Does anyone know of public ISP dashboards that show used/total capacity on their network in terms of customer usage? I'm sure its trivial for an internal employee to pull up solarwinds or whatever, but I'd be curious to see if these ISPs are merely running above normal, running hot, barely hanging on with intermittent "isp brownouts" etc. This is probably a pipe dream but not gonna get any questions answered if I don…

ISPs don't publish that information but some IXPs do. They are not running at saturation.

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Post by schnable » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

Interesting counterpoint to the "broadband is so much better in Europe" trope. Unless of course we are under strain here in the US as well....

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Post by mindslight » Thu, Mar 19, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC

Kodi and mpv continue to work as normal...