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How does this incentivize them to provide faster service? From my point of view, if they're allowed to let their service degrade so that they can turn around a
by click170 13y ago
How does this incentivize them to provide faster service?
From my point of view, if they're allowed to let their service degrade so that they can turn around and charge Netflix more money to make it go faster again, how is that an incentive to provide a faster service? To me, this is an incentive to provide slower service so that they can charge companies like Google and Netflix more money.
Edit: Funny this sentence can be turned around on you by clarifying who requested those streams.
Prior to paying Comcast for transit, if Comcast Customers asked Netflix to push 4k streams to them, that decision carried no repercussions for Comcast Customers.
- exelius 13y agoYes, but Netflix has the option to not provide those streams to Comcast customers if it's not economically viable for them. As it stands, most Comcast customers only request 4k streams because Netflix defaults to the highest bitrate. Basically, by changing a default setting, Netflix pushes bandwidth and creates a tragedy of the commons situation.