glugglug wrote:For the past few weeks I am intermittently getting only 1-2 bars on the bandwidth meter for the XBOX Netflix app, which I think means it is ~1-2Mbps.
I have a 35/35Mbps plan with FIOS, so it should be getting HD all the time. (it used to until recently).
Are others having this problem lately? Is it a FIOS issue or is Netflix downgrading their service for any customers not on OpenConnect ISPs?
I have been using Roku and Netflix for years but, like others, have experienced an increasingly intolerable slowdown between 8 - 10 PM Eastern for the past couple months. The number of quality bars is down but worse than that, the Roku repeatedly returns to the "loading" screen and the download takes up to 2 minutes before play resumes. Last night while watching an episode of Law and Order, the Roku went back to "loading" at least ten times.
I called Netflix and was assured that they have multiple routers in many locations and that the load on their service has not exceeded 70% capacity. It appears to me that Verizon has begun to throttle back on the bandwidth available to Netflix originated traffic during peak hours. I don't know that there is anything subscribers can do about it other than complain. I think that tonight I will stream video from Amazon and see if I encounter the problem.