Why Your Netflix Traffic Is Slow and Why the FCC Won’t Necessarily Make It Fast
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Why Your Netflix Traffic Is Slow and Why the FCC Won’t Necessarily Make It Fast
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#2This is why the Net Neutrality ruling was not a big step forward.
The right way to solve the internet problem is "unbundling"; that is, the people who own the last mile lease it out to companies that sell you internet, video and other services. If Comcast customers were getting a bad netflix experience they could switch to an ISP that gives a good one.
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#3This is why the Net Neutrality ruling was not a big step forward. The right way to solve the internet problem is "unbundling"; that is, the people who own the last mile lease it out to companies that sell you internet, video and other services. If Comcast customers were getting a bad netflix experience they could switch to an ISP that gives a good one.
How would this solve the problem though? Having competition at the last mile doesn't solve the problem of congestion in miles 2-100 where there is still one company.
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#4This is why the Net Neutrality ruling was not a big step forward. The right way to solve the internet problem is "unbundling"; that is, the people who own the last mile lease it out to companies that sell you internet, video and other services. If Comcast customers were getting a bad netflix experience they could switch to an ISP that gives a good one.
>> The right way to solve the internet problem is "unbundling"; that is, the people who own the last mile lease it out to companies that sell you internet, video and other services.
That's terrible. The ISP should give me "internet access" which includes everything out there. They should not get to pick and chose what I can get.
>> If Comcast customers were getting a bad netflix experience they could switch to an ISP that gives a good one.
This is called competition. It's what you get with net neutrality. Since every ISP has to give you everything equally, the only way they can compete is by building better infrastructure and compete on ping time and bandwidth. This is how it should be. Allowing them to prioritize certain services for a fee (regardless of who pays) means allowing them to stagnate - in fact paying them to stagnate - which is bad for everyone.
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#5It's refreshing to see more writing popping up from people that 'get' it. It's a shame that most of it is after people spent a decade campaigning for the wrong thing.
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#6>Thus, we will certainly see ISPs continue to use prioritization to manage congestion—prioritization is, in fact, a necessary tool for managing limited resources such as bandwidth.
Bandwidth may very well be a limited resource in some cases but the dispute between Comcast and Netflix is not one of them. The Comcast network has the bandwidth available to serve the customers (since not all sites are congested) and Netflix is willing to peer for free wherever they want them to, so the slowdown is completely artificial and Comcast generated.
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#7Cogent publicly offered to pay for both sides of the peering upgrades in order to fix their congestion problem.
http://www.cogentco.com/en/news/press-releases/631-cogent-of...
Pretty sure Comcast didn't take them up on the offer. Doing so would have fixed the issue and Netflix wouldn't be writing checks to Comcast now.
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#8Cogent publicly offered to pay for both sides of the peering upgrades in order to fix their congestion problem. http://www.cogentco.com/en/news/press-releases/631-cogent-of... Pretty sure Comcast didn't take them up on the offer. Doing so would have fixed the issue and Netflix wouldn't be writing checks to Comcast now.
You mean this check handed right here?
http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/this-hilarious...
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#9>In the specific case of Comcast and Time Warner, it is difficult to predict exactly how much additional leverage this will create, but as it turns out, these two ISPs are already in markets where they are not competing with one another, so this specific merger is unlikely to dramatically change the current situation.
This does not follow. A larger ISP with more market share, regardless of the state of the competition, can extract larger peering agreements. So this merge would absolutely make the current situation for Netflix worse and other peering agreements more expensive.
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#10This is why the Net Neutrality ruling was not a big step forward. The right way to solve the internet problem is "unbundling"; that is, the people who own the last mile lease it out to companies that sell you internet, video and other services. If Comcast customers were getting a bad netflix experience they could switch to an ISP that gives a good one.
Is that what "unbundling" actually means in this case? I thought it was just referring to letting other companies use your cables to resell the service at better prices/speeds.