If you're a Verizon and Netflix customer..

[2011GT]

That's total bullshit. What are we paying for every month?

Lube.

[LS1Goat]

Try connecting through a vpn before you do, Abecx and I just went through this with Vz and all Goog services. Once Vz couldn't "see" exactly what my traffic was, the issue magically disappeared.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

Is that the same Abecx that tried to convince me that Verizon does not throttle?

Nevertheless...Bryan is correct. If you put your traffic through VPN, you will see these problems "disappear". That is because Verizon traffic shapes (throttles) services like Netlix and YouTube to the extreme.

[Tx Redneck]

That's total bullshit. What are we paying for every month?

Greed is a female dog...

Fwiw, I now have a paid vpn service for 40 a yr and I'm satisfied with the results.

Saved and Texan by the Grace of God, Redneck by choice.

[Sean88gt]

That's total bullshit. What are we paying for every month?

That's my point. You pay for a service based on their advertising for high speed of streaming content, and then they fuck you.

[Grant]

Look up Sandvine reports and your ISP...it will tell the truth. They called out VZ & Comcast for doing this stuff years ago when they said they were not.

[Grant]

I can't wait until residential ISP's start offering IP/VPN routing to "enhance" your service experience. Ala, toll-roads..

Once they level out and hit "dumb-pipe" status among the prominent ISPs, I believe providers will start to market this the same way they currently do GB's of storage, which is already ridiculous as storage has never been cheaper and prices continue to fall by the GB.

This is already a heavily offered product in the commercial network business.

[Sean88gt]

Internet by NTTA?

[Grant]

Internet by NTTA?

Yep, might have to stand in front of the JP to explain your porn usage if you don't pay your bill and end up in collections.

[Grant]

Here's another good report that shows usage trends:

http://www.sandvine.com/news/pr_detail.asp?ID=431

http://www.sandvine.com/news/global_broadband_trends.asp

[Sean88gt]

Yep, might have to stand in front of the JP to explain your porn usage if you don't pay your bill and end up in collections.

I loathe communications companies in America. Instead of embracing that people don't want to pay for their shitty programming and genuinely working to create faster internet, they place caps, gotchas and other pissy measures in place to attempt to force you into spending money with them.

I suppose they should "smoke em while they got em" until some alternative comes along that people embrace.

[Grant]

I loathe communications companies in America. Instead of embracing that people don't want to pay for their shitty programming and genuinely working to create faster internet, they place caps, gotchas and other pissy measures in place to attempt to force you into spending money with them.

I suppose they should "smoke em while they got em" until some alternative comes along that people embrace.

Shareholders demand big profits and fast returns. We're just a product of that greed. Just like any other business.

Also, faster internet is directly related to that. I think the innovation is great in the telecommunication realm, as there is explosive growth for faster circuits in the commercial space; the issue is that residential providers (often times the same commercial providers) treat their residential customers with more of a controlled rollout so that they can ensure revenue streams are consistent and deploy other efforts on top of the pipe to take advantage of revenues. That's the part I hate and they 'all' do it. Also, the FCC is years behind actual current technology so hoping for them to step in and force any sort of competitive balance is a pipe-dream.

I don't disagree with any of your points though.

[90GT50]

Well that's really surprising...


Why would Verizon intentionally disrupt Netflix video streaming for its customers? Many are pointing to the fact that Verizon owns a 50% stake in Redbox, the video rental service that contributed to the demise of Blockbuster. If anything threatens the future of Redbox, whose business model requires customers to visit its vending machines to rent and return DVDs, its Netflix's instant streaming service, which delivers the same content directly to their screens.

The accusations are quite damning, but this isn't the first time ISPs have been accused of attempting to disrupt Netflix service in order to steal customers.

However things progress from here - GigaOm reached out to Verizon for comment and received a highly edited declaration of Verizon's stellar customer service records - it's going to be difficult for anyone to stop Netflix. Data released last month by Sandvine estimated that Netflix accounts for 32.3% of peak-period web traffic in North America.

Redbox, meanwhile, showed signs of growth in its last quarterly report, increasing market share and raising its revenue by 1%. However, many analysts wrote this off as a last-minute spurt before Redbox suffers the same fate as Blockbuster at the hands of Netflix streaming.

https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/verizon-accused-intentionally-slowing-netflix-video-streaming

[abecx]

abecx doesnt have these noob issues, I run my own peering.

[jw33]

I use AOL and I can download the internets just fine?