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Yes. The case where it's much more useful is traffic going in/out of major CDNs to shared IP addresses. For Netflix or someone else running their own CDN the ga
by gsnedders 7y ago
Yes. The case where it's much more useful is traffic going in/out of major CDNs to shared IP addresses. For Netflix or someone else running their own CDN the gains are much smaller.
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoSo ISPs could still impose traffic shaping on Netflix if they wanted to, I take it? I can't see how Netflix could prevent this. Ultimately, their servers ('OCAs') have easily detectable IP addresses, right?
- throwaway287391 7y agoFast.com probably helps quite a bit. If ISPs throttle Netflix' traffic their fast.com measurements will look bad and customers will complain/sue. (AFAIK there's no way to distinguish between fast.com tests and actual Netflix video consumption since the former's traffic patterns are identical(?) to a Netflix video streaming client's.) Creating fast.com always seemed like a pretty brilliant move by Netflix to me.
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoGood point. Smaller players can't make the same move though.
- Tijdreiziger 7y agoI think that was the whole point of fast.com, right? Speeds to known 'speedtest' servers were manipulated by ISPs, and this was bad for Netflix's business because customers would ostensibly have good speeds yet have slow Netflix, so fast.com was created as a way to measure the 'real' speed to Netflix's servers.
- throwaway287391 7y agoYeah, that's what I was saying (or at least trying to say).