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> for some reason, AT&T traffic to fast.com is throttled. Why AT&T wants bandwidth to appear lower than reality is a mystery to me My guess is that Netflix is
by maximilianroos 4y ago
> for some reason, AT&T traffic to fast.com is throttled. Why AT&T wants bandwidth to appear lower than reality is a mystery to me
My guess is that Netflix is throttled, and given that fast.com is a Netflix site, fast.com is throttled too.
- dghlsakjg 4y agoNetflix intentionally hosts fast.com on the same IPs as their video sites. It is a very intentional way for consumers to see if their isp is throttling Netflix.
- oh_sigh 4y agoSince almost everyone usingfast.com on an AT&t network also use AT&t DNS, I'm surprised they don't do something funky with that, for example throttling IPs that did a recent Netflix.com lookup, but not IPs that did a recent fast.com lookup
- jrockway 4y agoBecause if this was a workaround to get better Netflix quality, then there would be 1000 blogspam articles about it. It's too good to be true ("visit fast.com to make Netflix load faster"), and the Internet loves that kind of thing.