Re:Google’s $6B Miscalculation on the EU
by pgeorgi on Friday August 07, 2015 @08:52AM
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DTAG benefits from inertia, being the offspring of the public post/telecom monopoly they started with a 100% customer base.
As for the issue at hand (YT being slow), like a sibling post states, that's because they refuse to peer at DECIX where everybody else is. They even tried to frame the NSA scandals as "IT companies, be responsible, keep user data in German networks and peer with us directly (on our terms, which will be expensive for you - they 'forgot' to mention that in the press releases)".
The best way to make DTAG more customer friendly (both upstream and downstream) is to move somewhere else.
Luckily in cities you have 5+ ISPs to choose from (some of them DTAG resellers, but still an improvement), and even on the country side it's typically at least 3.
As for the issue at hand (YT being slow), like a sibling post states, that's because they refuse to peer at DECIX where everybody else is. They even tried to frame the NSA scandals as "IT companies, be responsible, keep user data in German networks and peer with us directly (on our terms, which will be expensive for you - they 'forgot' to mention that in the press releases)".
The best way to make DTAG more customer friendly (both upstream and downstream) is to move somewhere else.
Luckily in cities you have 5+ ISPs to choose from (some of them DTAG resellers, but still an improvement), and even on the country side it's typically at least 3.