MG57 wrote:Quantum won't help; I have it and I get 500 kbps when I connect to my office which happens to be on Cogent. The points of connection between Cogen and Verizon are often at capacity. Verizon customers pay for bandwidth to watch Netflix and Netflix pays Cogent to deliver that content. Verizon want to get paid for both receipt and delivery of data. IMO they should split the cost of expanding their connection capacity, each expand their own networks as needed, and charge their customers accordingly.
Verizon customers are getting most of their Netflix content via Level 3 now and guess what, now Level 3 points are becoming saturated. Level 3 is hardly a discount carrier. I think at this point, Verizon doesn't care what its peering agreements are, even with other tier 1 providers. If you're providing transit or CDN capacity for Netflix, Verizon will discriminate against you in the most legal way possible at the moment - by letting peering points with those transit and CDN providers to become saturated.