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Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam by ghshephard on Sunday February 23, 2014 @04:42PM (#7287731)
Comcast wasn't blocking or rate limiting Netflix (in this scenario) - they had over utilized circuits with Cogent, who is a transit-provider that sells cut-rate transit of lower quality (and much lower cost) than other transit providers.
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Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam by lotsofmangos on Monday February 24, 2014 @07:12AM (#7290358)
They score well on transit degree.

http://as-rank.caida.org/?mode0=as-ranking&n=10&ranksort=4

http://www.caida.org/research/topology/as_core_network/

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Re:Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam by nknighthb on Sunday February 23, 2014 @06:02PM (#7288094)
I got better and more reliable service from Cogent than I ever got from the likes of Level3, and having both been a Comcast customer AND seen the inside of Comcast, I don't know in what universe it could be called "quality".
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