Don't rain on my "make fun of the people that don't know anything about ISPs" parade.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -------------------------------------------------- From: "Michael Baird" <m...@tc3net.com> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:40 PM To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Subject: Re: [WISPA] What buffoons.. > Mike, > > It does, Netflix is served via many different geographical locations > utlizing geographical DNS based on information about your AS #. > Sometimes folks are routed to Netflix streaming mirrors which aren't the > best, and therefore play at a lower resolution. I don't have this > problem, but I'm aware of ISP's who have created a local zone in their > resolving DNS for Netflix's streaming mirrors. If you check the Roku > player forums you will find this advise coming from their engineers as > well. > > Regards > Michael Baird >> I am looking at the Ars article now. >> >> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/bandwidth-hogs-dont-even-exist-says-analyst.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss?comments=1#_login >> >> Apparently switching DNS makes your NetFlix look better. LOL >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions >> http://www.ics-il.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "George Morris" <ghmor...@candlelight.ca> >> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:56 PM >> To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org> >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] What buffoons.. >> >> >>> Good to see you're beating on him Mike. >>> >>> The original post and comments section are here: >>> http://www.fiberevolution.com/2009/12/whats-a-bandwidth-hog-.html#comments >>> >>> Some of the comments are pretty well thought out. >>> >>> George >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >>> Behalf Of Mike Hammett >>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 2:06 PM >>> To: wireless@wispa.org >>> Subject: [WISPA] What buffoons.. >>> >>> http://www.benton.org/node/30268 >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >>> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
