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Fast.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
by throwaway287391 7y ago
Fast.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 6y agoYeah, that's what I was saying (or at least trying to say).