Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs

Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by ubercow13 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:16AM (#20695161)

Any evidence that it doesn’t work?

In the UK most ISPs will instead perform traffic shaping where they will slow down your connection during peak times after a certain small amount of data transfer. This still seems to be disliked by consumers just the same.

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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by cannonedhamster on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:37AM (#20695973)

Yes. Everyone still needs to go to work at the same time so the resources are still going to be used at the same time. It's charging extra for standard expected usage that the ISPs have known exists for years. If this were really an issue there wouldn't be so much dark fiber in the US hooked into copper cable local loops.

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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by mattnewton on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:21AM (#20695206)

If we had a competitive market in either place, it would be interesting to see what consumers choose. I think I would prefer the traffic shaped example, since the current tiering situation appears to have _both_ limits in the fine print with Comcast.

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