Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam

Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam by JohnTHaller on Sunday February 23, 2014 @01:44PM (#7286962)

Yeah, my building here in NYC, I can get Time Warner or DSL (Verizon or from a reseller). That's it. Lots of us are stuck with 1 or 2 crappy options. I have overpriced Time Warner and a Verizon hotspot as a backup because the TW cable connection goes down about once a month. The other option is DSL which is too slow to do work and was down a week of my 30 day trial when I checked it out years back.

Keep in mind that this is New York City. You'll have lesser options in many other places in the US.

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Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam by gonzo on Sunday February 23, 2014 @02:09PM (#7287094)

I'm in Austin, TX.

We have two FTTH providers (AT&T, Grande). Grande offers 1Gbps now, AT&T is 300Mbps now, 1Gbps this summer. Time Warner offers 300Mbps now (DOCSIS).

Google fiber is being deployed this year (1Gbps).

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Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam by ploxiln on Sunday February 23, 2014 @03:18PM (#7287391)

Yeah, funny world - once one decent internet provider pops up in an area (Grande, presumably, and now the thread of Google Fiber too), all the other classic providers seem to provide the best service they offer throughout the country. AT&T doesn't offer that in 95% of their territory in the US (so like 99% of the US can't get it), and the same goes for Time Warner. If any area has decent internet options, it's not because of a classic / well known broadband ISP, it's only because of some small independent ISP that forced a local market to be competitive.

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Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam by krschultz on Sunday February 23, 2014 @02:42PM (#7287240)

Austin is the best case scenario in the country.

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Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam by twistedpair on Sunday February 23, 2014 @02:37PM (#7287217)

The terrible consequences of competition.

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