streaming potentially being throttled, we've got a new,
potentially volatile piece of information: the CEO of the
company that provides Netflix's bandwidth (Cogent)
straight up says that Verizon, Comcast and Time
Warner are causing the issues. "Every Internet user is
suffering today in their ability to access all the
applications, content, and other users across the
Internet," Cogent CEO Dave Schaeffer told Ars
Technica in a recent interview.
Due to the consumer-based ISPs (Comcast, etc.)
demanding money from Cogent for an already existing,
free (though mutually beneficial) relationship, and
Cogent refusing to pay, streaming internet (and all other
bandwidth, for that matter) has suffered. Specifically,
he claims, Verizon (and others) refuse to upgrade the
equipment that handles ISP traffic across the country.
"Once a port hits about 85 percent throughput, you're
going to begin to start to drop packets. Clearly when a
port is at 120 or 130 percent, the packet loss is
material," he told Ars, in reference to the existing ports
being overused.
We'd advise taking his claims with a grain of salt:
Verizon's demanding money that he doesn't want to
give, and he's using the public forum to negotiate -- that
much is clear, regardless of the streaming situation.
That said, he's far from the first to make the claim of
traffic issues surrounding Netflix streaming. For what
it's worth, Verizon contests the claims: "It is
categorically false that we are doing anything to
adversely impact Netflix traffic to benefit Redbox."
Meanwhile, those of us simply trying to marathon
House of Cards' second season are left screaming at our
TVs.
SOURCE: Ars Technica
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