> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Ronan > > Slashdot discussion re: Verizon Fios customer's experience: > "However, his Netflix video streams were limping along at just > 375kbps (0.375mbps), equivalent to 0.5 percent of the speed he's > paying for. On a hunch, he decided to connect to a VPN service, > which in theory should actually make things slower since it's > adding extra hops. Speeds didn't get slower, they got much > faster." > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/14/07/26/0324226/enraged-verizon-fios- > customer-seemingly-demonstrates-netflix-throttling
Yup, but remember there are two possible explanations why: 1- There's a congested segment, and by using VPN, you're effectively routing around the congestion. This is the present case today. or 2- The ISP throttles the traffic. While this is not the case today, it is possibly the case in the future. This is the situation that encryption could potentially help solve. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
