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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by bradleyjg on Monday July 24, 2017 @01:53PM (#14840882)
My ISP keeps on trying to get me to upgrade to "up to" 100 Mbps service. What in the world do I need that kind of bandwidth for except to stream videos? Shouldn't they disclose that if I upgrade I can't actually use the bandwidth unless the video provider pays them too?
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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by Spivak on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:48PM (#14842551)
That does seem to be a trivial point. You're not going to get 100Mbps unless the entire path between the endpoints can push that speed.

You're getting a 100Mbps connection to the edge of their network and they have peering agreements, what else should they be doing?

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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by FireBeyond on Monday July 24, 2017 @06:59PM (#14843522)
Eh, that's getting less and less of an issue. My nominal 105/20 internet connection from Comcast Business rarely pushes less than 80mbps download speeds, and from any major provider, CDN, regularly hits and sustains 120mbps.
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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by Dylan16807 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:45PM (#14851696)
> what else should they be doing?

They should be peering freely with anyone that is responding to requests from the ISP's end users.

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