On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Derek Balling <[email protected]> wrote: > So I VPN'd into work (We have a non-split-tunnel VPN available), and then we > can watch it, no problem. It's the same content, being delivered over the > same network, only it's encrypted and hidden from FiOS's routers. There's > no other explanation, simply, caught red handed. > > I reject the premise. > > By VPN'ing into a different network you are -- by definition -- getting > traffic to and from Netflix via a different peering-point, presumably one > that doesn't have 100s, 1000s, tens of 1000s, of Netflix customers all > trying to cross it at the same time. It may be a narrower peering point than > the one FIOS is connected to, but it suffers FAR less contention.
I'd go further, even. By VPN'ing, you've proven that the problem isn't in your last-mile -- it's upstream at a peering point, just like Netflix and Level3 and others are claiming. So - you don't know with certainty that the FiOS network (which I presume is a limited segment of the totality of network behind Verizon's border...) is even part of the problem - it could be at any hop upstream from you that isn't also upstream of the place where traffic to your VPN concentrator happens to go. [And speaking of L3 -- what do folks think of the periodic Level3 posts about peering and people telling untruths? I regard them as propaganda, of a sort -- but it's the kind that doesn't bother me too much -- because I love to see other people fight for the truth and for underdogs...] --e _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
