geschinger wrote:Amazon Prime is coming in on a different handoff where the Verizon links are not as saturated.
Anytime I've done traceroutes the problem is at the handoff point - first hop outside of the Verizon network. If Verizon customers are requesting X mb of traffic and Verizon only has the infrastructure at the handoff to accept a subset of X then packets are going to be dropped and service for clients will deteroriate. That is what is happening with Verizon.
The best thing in the world for consumers would be for the spat between Verizon and Netflix relative to the C&D letter to go to court. Discovery would go a long way towards documenting that Verizon is the bad actor here.
You know who chooses that right?
Amazon and netflix.
Netflix actually has quite a bit of control.
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In a little known, but public fact, anyone who is on Comcast or Verizon and using Apple TV to stream Netflix wasn’t having quality problems. The reason for this is that Netflix is using Level 3 and Limelight to stream their content specifically to the Apple TV device. What this shows is that Netflix is the one that decides and controls how they get their content to each device and whether they do it via their own servers or a third party. Netflix decides which third party CDNs to use and when Netflix uses their own CDN, they decide whom to buy transit from, with what capacity, in what locations and how many connections they buy, from the transit provider. Netflix is the one in control of this, not Comcast or any ISP.
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See The below articles.
Unbalanced Peering, and the Real Story Behind the Verizon/Cogent Dispute (cogent is one of netflix's providers)
This article details the technical aspect of it, pretty interesting read if you're into that sort of stuff. Verizon Signed a similiar deal with netflix as well
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/02/heres-comcast-netflix-deal-struct...