The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017)

Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by dingo_bat on Monday February 12, 2018 @07:34PM (#16363753)

> Quality. I don't care that your algorithm thinks my network is not fast enough for HD. Just let me tell it that it's wrong. Or I could torrent and download something in actual HD within just a few minutes.

This is so true. I have a decently fast connection (75mbps) and Netflix's own speed test tells me the pipe really is that fat. YouTube can play 1080p60fps content without breaking a sweat. But Netflix is always blurry af. I tried firefox Chrome edge and even the native windows app. The quality is always lesser than what you can get on YouTube. It's the same on Android. I think it doesn't even show me 720p on my 1440p phone. Even when I pre-download something so the network strength is not an issue.

On the other hand, Amazon prime content is crispy clear 1080p most of the times.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by FuckOffNeemo on Monday February 12, 2018 @09:44PM (#16364350)

1080p and 4k streaming on Windows currently only works on Internet Explorer\Edge.

Other browsers are at a lesser resolution, I believe it was 720p but that could be wrong.

Edit: yup, 720p on everything except IT.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23742

Quote:

    Google Chrome

        Up to 720p on Windows, Mac, and Linux

        Up to 1080p on Chrome OS

    Internet Explorer up to 1080p

    Microsoft Edge up to 4K*

    Mozilla Firefox up to 720p

    Opera up to 720p

    Safari up to 1080p on Mac OS X 10.10.3 or later

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by dingo_bat on Monday February 12, 2018 @11:32PM (#16364776)

I know, that's why I tried IE, edge and also the native Windows app. The quality is still crappy. In fact I wanted to watch the movie Pacific Rim, and the quality was so bad that it was unwatchable. I torrented a 1080p copy and watched that instead.

As I said, the weird part is that their is no improvement in quality even if you pre-download the content.

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by ryandrake on Monday February 12, 2018 @08:43PM (#16364093)

Maybe your ISP is specifically throttling Netflix, but not their speed test?

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Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) by PMan74 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @10:26AM (#16367794)

I'm pretty sure their speed test (fast.com) is designed to hit the Netflix content servers making it difficult (impossible?) to throttle either independently.

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