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A comment on Verizon's accidental mea culpa. Parent comment

Re:Verizon's accidental mea culpa by mreiland on Thursday July 17, 2014 @03:29PM (#8049665)
oh man... the evil in me laughs with glee at this.

But honestly, it couldn't be done. Not with the upload restrictions at the end of the pipe.

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Re:Verizon's accidental mea culpa by msandford on Thursday July 17, 2014 @06:05PM (#8050491)
You could get it much closer to balanced. A good quality Netflix stream is 3Mbps down and probably only a few dozen kbps up. You just have to send some occasional bookkeeping data.

What if Netflix got that number to go up from say 30kbps to 500kbps? Still only 10% of upload speed link utilization on a 50/5 Mbps customer line.

Even if the ratio only went from 3:1 to 3:2 suddenly you're much, much closer to balanced. Takes a lot of wind out of their sails. Instead of "ZOMG THREE TIMES AS MUCH!" it's "FUCK IT'S 50% MORE!" which doesn't sound nearly as good.

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