Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by nvarsj on Friday March 20, 2020 @06:36AM
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I’m being pedantic, but that’s not really Zen, it’s the BT Openreach backend which has really great stability and latencies. I tracked my BT Openreach connection for many years and I never got more than a few ms of jitter, really amazing. However the speeds are not great (70/20), and the coverage is also fairly poor - I'm in a dead zone right now between two local exchanges. So unfortunately I'm forced to use Virgin, which has gotta be the worst ISP in the history of the world (and I have had Comcast!). Terrible network and terrible customer service - I don't know how this company exists.
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by collinmanderson on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:10PM
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That's a neat alternative to PingPlotter. I like that it pings from outside, so no client required. I'll check it out, however, I'm in the US, so I bet it's always going to be high latency.
Re:Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days
by wh1t3n01s3 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:26PM
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Not friend of yours italian quarantined enjoying 1Gb/s here. Never used Netflix ;-)
My connection: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/...
In case anyone is shopping for broadband in the UK, I only have great things to say about Zen pictured above. It's so good I just called to upgrade my 80 Mb to a 300 Mb just for fun, meanwhile my quarantined Italian friends are suffering awful internet now that everybody's at home streaming Netflix.
I used to have Virgin fibre and my average ping was 80ms with a ton of jitter. The plot above is my internet while downloading at about 2MB/s average over the past 24 hours, and surprisingly stays the same even at peak download.