They seem to forget that the internet is a request based system. It's not a series of tubes going downhill.
Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth
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#72> We’re Not Satisfied Until Our Customers Are
he misspelled "Shareholders"
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
If only more had that option.
That's really the key problem here. There is lack of choice in the US and Canada. Everyone loves to drum their chest about capitalism but in this case it isn't working, and ISPs have clearly colluded to divvy up the territories so they aren't directly competing. The internet has become a public utility just like electricity, water, or the roads. Businesses and private citizens depend on it day to day, and economic gr…
>Everyone loves to drum their chest about capitalism but in this case it isn't working
Your comment assumes that capitalism is in place in the US. It is not. Cronyism, better known as fascism, is.
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#74That chart is worthless without numbers. First off, the chart makes it sound like Netflix is preferring subpar transit providers, and that by simply switching to different transit providers, they'd be fine. But there's no numbers on total bandwidth. For example, if Verizon has 100Gbps to Netflix's content providers, and only 40Gbps to their other content providers, then the additional 20Gbps is going to be a drop in…
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#75From the article: "Netflix sends out an unprecedented amount of traffic." YES! Yes they do! But Netflix doesn't send that traffic for fun and giggles, just to swamp your network and clog up the port. They do it because YOUR CUSTOMERS HAVE ASKED THEM TO and you, Verizon, you duplicitous shitbag, have SOLD THAT CAPABILITY to your customers. They have LITERALLY PAID you to successfully receive up to 75Mbps worth of traf…
Maybe we're getting to the point where Internet connections are more like public roads.
Maybe no private entity should control these roads.
Maybe it's time for a sweeping change.
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#76Verizon is blaming Netflix for sending "an unprecedented amount of traffic" and "not taking steps to ensure that there is adequate capacity for their traffic to enter" Verizon's network. The thing is, Netflix is NOT pushing any of that traffic to Verizon. It is Verizon's customers who are pulling that traffic from NetFlix -- and they are paying Verizon to deliver it !!! More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
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Is there a special lane for billy goats?
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#77They can claim whatever they want, but when you tunnel Netflix traffic through a VPN so all the ISP see's is encrypted traffic and bandwidth issues disappear, it removes all mystery. I've tried several VPN's to test out my theory, and with each one, as soon as the ISP couldn't inspect traffic, all throttling seem to magically vanish. considering what we're paying for broadband, we should be getting what we pay for wi…
I had this same experience with Comcast. See also Level 3's blog post calling Verizon and other ISPs out on this BS: http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte...
Yep this is exactly the fast lane that we don't want. The lane is not any faster, just less traffic, says Verizon--really, that seems like a fast lane to me.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do. Comcast. Data cap. Of course, what I would -prefer- is to ditch Comcast, and yes, watch at a higher resolution, and I will at the first available opportunity. But can't. Because monopoly.
nonsense. there is no monopoly in capitalism. /sarcasm
If there was Capitalism you'd actually be able to compete.
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#79It's always kind of strange to me that Verizon only wants to provide settlement-free peering "where the relative traffic flows between an IP network provider and us remain roughly equal". If you were to take that at face value, it means that Verizon would happy to provide free peering if only Netflix modified its client so it uploaded a number of random bytes equal to the size of the stream it was downloading. But th…
Trust me, Verizon wants nothing of this sort. They would literally throw a fit if suddenly Netflix customers were pushing out as much bandwidth as they pull in.
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#80It's always kind of strange to me that Verizon only wants to provide settlement-free peering "where the relative traffic flows between an IP network provider and us remain roughly equal". If you were to take that at face value, it means that Verizon would happy to provide free peering if only Netflix modified its client so it uploaded a number of random bytes equal to the size of the stream it was downloading. But th…
No, that's fucking GENIUS. Please God, if there is a God, let someone from Netflix read this parent post and implement such a thing to take the wind right out of Verizon's sails.
That is actually the basis of our startup is that we can solve the congestion problem by swarming with other video viewers to require less downstream bandwidth usage