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The #1 source of upstream traffic - Bittorrent - has significantly decreased their peak-hour upstream (shifting it to other hours) as described in the article. This rather obviously means that you can go from 7.7% to 9.5% share without any significant changes to Netflix as such, simply because the total peak-hour upstream rate is now slightly lower.
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no, it just means that you don't have to upload a whole lot of stuff to become 10% of upstream traffic.
It just seems weird that YouTube is further down that list, yet YouTube is a video hosting service.
Netflix is doing 720p / 1080p defaults on most players, 1 hour to who-knows-how-long non-stop sessions (I personally have binge-watched like half a season of TV shows in one sitting occasionally) and gets daily recurring traffic from multiple members per household.
So if Netflix makes up 9.48% of upstream and 32.39% of downstream, that means for each 10 packets sent, 3 ACK packets are sent back (I know those figures don't represent raw traffic). Does that seem a little odd? I'm not asking as a basis for some conspiracy, I'm more so wondering what that implies for data services I'm working on.
Anyone know what the equivalent upstream/downstream stats would be for all of cable/traditional tv companies? Most of these articles show how large Netflix is now - I'm curious how large they'll get.
There are no acks to be sent, a consumer endpoint just tunes to a channel and reads transport stream [1] video off the wire.
So if Netflix makes up 9.48% of upstream and 32.39% of downstream, that means for each 10 packets sent, 3 ACK packets are sent back (I know those figures don't represent raw traffic). Does that seem a little odd? I'm not asking as a basis for some conspiracy, I'm more so wondering what that implies for data services I'm working on.
Your math would be meaningful if the total upstream volume would be the same as downstream volume, which is very much not the case. The percentages mostly depend on how much upstream traffic is (or isn't) generated by other sources.
From the article: the newest report has Netflix at 9.48 percent of upstream and 34.89 percent of downstream [...] The average Internet subscribing household in North America uploaded 7.6GB of data per month in Sandvine's report in the first half of this year, increasing to 8.5GB in the latest report, a boost of 11.8 percent. The average household's monthly downloads increased from 43.8GB to 48.9GB, a boost of 11.6 pe…
Anyone know what the equivalent upstream/downstream stats would be for all of cable/traditional tv companies? Most of these articles show how large Netflix is now - I'm curious how large they'll get.
"Traditional" cable, even digital cable, is broadcast, not streamed. There are no acks to be sent, a consumer endpoint just tunes to a channel and reads transport stream [1] video off the wire. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream
What this says to me is that people really love content with no ads and are willing to pay for it.
I dread the time when they become cable-ified and start adding different tiers (but it would make good economic sense).
I've been told Cable TV didn't have ads at the beginning.
From the article: the newest report has Netflix at 9.48 percent of upstream and 34.89 percent of downstream [...] The average Internet subscribing household in North America uploaded 7.6GB of data per month in Sandvine's report in the first half of this year, increasing to 8.5GB in the latest report, a boost of 11.8 percent. The average household's monthly downloads increased from 43.8GB to 48.9GB, a boost of 11.6 pe…
I'm sure you are aware of this, but the average here seems missleading. The median household has never Torrented anything, therefore I think that the median would be more representative of the average user's habits.
Why does Netflix use TCP for streaming instead of UDP? A few missing packets isn't going to meaningfully impact a video stream.