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Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency

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Re: Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency

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Post by ck2 »

It would be funny if netflix just looked for one of their hubs/datacenters and moved in next door on purpose.

ISPs are common carriers and must be regulated as such, because as soon as Comcast makes its own netflix-like service, you can forget getting netflix to stream smoothly.

Re: Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency

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Post by nathancahill »

ck2 wrote: post #4

It would be funny if netflix just looked for one of their hubs/datacenters and moved in next door on purpose. ISPs are common carriers and must be regulated as such, because as soon as Comcast makes its own netflix-like service, you can forget getting netflix to stream smoothly.

I've done this before for large scraping projects. I find the datacenter the target website is hosted in, then get a dedicated server right next to it. I've never gotten better performance.

Re: Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency

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Post by bdb »

koblas wrote: post #2

I've noticed that the 11greatoaks.ca.ibone.comcast.net router(s) (Equinix SV1) are typically the ones that fail / have large latency issues. Hopefully if this has happened then they've increased overall capacity through this bottleneck.

You're seeing this because that's where Comcast primarily buys transit and peers with other networks; those edges are where the congested ports are. They generally have plenty of capacity between SV1 and their CMTSes (even if they have to take you from Oakland to Sac-town to get from SF to San Jose).

Re: Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency

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Post by jonny_eh »

I did notice last night that my stream of House of Cards looked way better than it has in the past month (when it started to go bad). It was HD level the whole hour, while previously it would only go HD for about 10 minutes total randomly through the episode.

I'm a Comcast user in San Mateo, CA.

Re: Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency

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Post by bdb »

ck2 wrote: post #4

It would be funny if netflix just looked for one of their hubs/datacenters and moved in next door on purpose. ISPs are common carriers and must be regulated as such, because as soon as Comcast makes its own netflix-like service, you can forget getting netflix to stream smoothly.

There are only a handful of buildings where you need to be in order to just be a cross-connect or switch fabric away from nearly every network in the world.
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