So, ever since I moved from one part of Pittsburgh to another, my Netflix streams have suffered from extremely diminished speeds during peak hours. For example, when I come home from work and try to watch an episode of Orange Is The New Black on my xbox (or laptop, it doesn't really matter), it'll peak at around 3 bars, slink back to 2, and stay there pretty much all night. What's especially vexing is that this didn't start until I moved into my new apartment, especially since I had FIOS in the old place as well. Furthermore, if I try to watch something on another streaming video platform, like Amazon Instant or HBO GO, it'll go into HD picture within seconds.
I've called Verizon about this six times now, and Netflix three times. Both blame the other, and I'm both baffled and irritated. I've power cycled the router more times than I can count. The Netflix engineers told me that my network's consistency was to blame, and when I asked the Verizon tech about it, he said he had no way of measuring it, so I was basically out of options.
Is there some way to fix this? For the love of god, please tell me there is.