Net Neutrality was dead as soon as Google became an ISP.
We all know where this is going.
Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
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Re: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
#22Earlier 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…
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Re: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
#23Yes let's arm ourselves with pitchforks based on an anecdotal experience of a stranger on the internet.
"That means a lot of services are going to be impacted by this." Should be easy enough for someone else to verify shortly.
No need for pitchforks, but corroboration would certainly be welcome.
Re: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Netflix is already doing this: http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa
Oh wow. I was being tongue in cheek about us techies, but looks like Netflix beat me to it here. awesome!
Re: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
#25So that is what's going on! What should we do?
Re: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
#26Someone 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…
Netflix already do this, http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/
Things are not looking good in my area... http://imgur.com/pxlpxO9
Re: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
#27Someone 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…
M-Lab provides a suite of tools to test a lot of net neutrality related stuff: http://www.measurementlab.net/
Re: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Netflix is already doing this: http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/usa
A rough look at the data suggests that Verizon DLS used to be around a stable 1.4 Mbps until October 2013 and is on a continuous decline since then with a current low of 1.17 Mbps. That would support the OPs theory, but it's only a single datapoint that may have other underlying causes.
Re: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
#29Someone 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…
This doesn't at all answer your question, but it's close. http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/bttest.php
Re: Verizon Using Recent Net Neutrality Victory to Wage War Against Netflix?
#30Someone 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…
Netflix already do this, http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/
Unfortunately their US data only goes to December. Looks like Verizon dipped prior to the net neutrality ruling. http://imgur.com/xOfjRf0