Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?

Post by leobelle » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 2:21 PM UTC

orenmazor wrote: post #7

leobelle wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a lot of complexity involved with network connections. There are many plausible alternative explanations for your and the author's problems. One or two people talking about their experience isn't the kind of data you would need to jump to the conclusion that your ISP is throttling your internet connection.

if only we had a distributed group of people, all of whom with a vested interest in figuring this out, that could help us with doing speed tests in variety of configurations…

Post by bhouston » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

Post by grej » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

Post by squigs25 » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 2:23 PM UTC

ef4 wrote: post #12

I think the ISPs are going to eventually regret this. Once you get a reputation for having a crappy product, it's hard to lose it. And they will get that reputation. Their own advertising has often touted how well their service can stream Netflix. People are already primed to judge them on it, because the industy's own advertising has taught them to . Stupid stupid.

Post by trigger » Wed, Feb 05, 2014, 2:24 PM UTC

bhouston wrote: post #13

Someone should write a speed test website that looks to read from a set of common cloud services and then compares the speeds and records this based on ISP and location. This shouldn't be hard to setup and you'll get a ton of page views probably for ever. One can then see degradations over time and based on ISP. Would be even nicer to have some controls in there too so you can see if well known cloud services are slo…