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This is a great move by Netflix. It will hopefully be visible enough that ISPs will try increasing their standing, which is ends up being good for customers.
by bajsejohannes 14y ago
This is a great move by Netflix. It will hopefully be visible enough that ISPs will try increasing their standing, which is ends up being good for customers.
- georgemcbay 14y agoI wish you were right. My ISP (Time Warner Cable) is basically openly hostile towards its customers and can afford to be since it has a de facto monopoly position where I live. I'm pretty sure this Netflix report will do nothing to get them to fix their many, many problems. I'm very hopeful that in the long term Google Fiber will make a big impact on the ISP landscape here in the United States, but I think it is going to take a very long time and the entrenched players are going to have to be dragged into the present kicking and screaming (and lobbying) and Google is going to have to expand a LOT more before the other guys start making real changes.
- politician 14y agoIs CLEAR (4G WiMax) an option for you? It works pretty well here in Austin, and by well I mean streaming video with minimal buffering.
- georgemcbay 14y agoI haven't tried it but probably not. I do a lot of Xbox Live gaming and I've heard bad things about Clear wrt/ gaming latency (though I've heard it is nice for lots of other use cases).
- untog 14y agoA friend here in NYC tells me that the CLEAR service often gets terrible at peak times.
- evoxed 14y agoPretty much everything gets terrible at peak times in NYC.
- wmf 14y agoThe FCC did a study that called out ISPs for not providing the bandwidth they promised and a year later it was mostly fixed. So in some sense this kind of data does embarrass ISPs into improving; OTOH they already improved and it's not clear how much more they're willing to invest.