swatbat
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Here's the thing though, ISPs have long advertised the rates and service they provide but it's only now that people are actually using it they realize that they can't/don't want to support it. You can't advertise 10Mbps and then not deliver on it. I don't care how many people are watching Netflix, if they're all using their 10Mbps then you should deliver because that's the service you sold them.
If you can't keep up with the demand, then maybe they shouldn't have sold more capacity than they were willing to upgrade their infrastructure to support.
You are getting the speed though. One vendor you are not getting it to. And at least 2 or 3 studies have said that the vendor isn't routing data the best way so they are also at fault. I'm not saying the big ISP's shouldn't share some of the blame. I'm saying that the peering agreements were setup more under the idea that traffic would be going both ways. You have maybe 9 tier 1 back bone providers in the US. One of them pushes over 30% of the traffic in prime time and isn't taking near that much in return. In a sense they are abusing the system.
Netflix has been trying to push the blame on everyone else. They are part of the problem.
This is where the term "peering" really comes into play. Cox and Verizon having an interconnect is mutually beneficial to both companies so as long as traffic back and forth isn't grossly lopsided, both ISPs maintain the link. Netflix isn't an ISP, they're solely a content provider.
Yea and netflix via their backbone provider is providing grossly lopsided traffic.