Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't Inform Customers About

Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by ryandrake on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:49PM (#14842000)

> The Youtube video player will detect this and automatically downgrade to a lower quality until it finds one that fits within the bandwidth profile

Ahh, this is the key point I missed, thanks. So it's a problem with the video player itself trying to "decide" for you the quality you want. Couldn't this be worked around with things like youtube-dl?

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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by rmc on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:59PM (#14842098)

The video player deciding what quality you want is a good thing. The user wants to watch a video live, as it goes. You don't want to be interuppted every 30 seconds with a "buffering" message, or wait 10 minutes at the start for it to entirely download.

Youtube-dl would probably work, because it will would download the high quality video as a file, and your ISP would make the download take longer than the video.

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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by snakeanus on Monday July 24, 2017 @11:42PM (#14844974)

> The video player deciding what quality you want is a good thing

It's an extremely annoying thing actually, especially when it changes after I manually set it to 1080p. This is why I use mpv to watch stuff from youtube nowadays.

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Re:Verizon Throttles Netflix Subscribers in Test It Doesn't ... by wil421 on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:59PM (#14842097)

The other poster has already pointed out the correct answer. Other users are reporting the same issue on the AT&T forums[1] and on DSLreports.

I'd imagine this is due to politics and AT&T betting net neutrality will go away. Once YouTube forks over money a peering point will be upgraded.

[1]https://forums.att.com/t5/AT-T-Fiber-Equipment/Gigapower-You...

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