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Re: Many players make up application performance (was Re: Richard

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Jul 29 19:08:25 2014

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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:00:22 -0400
To: Corey Touchet <corey.touchet@corp.totalserversolutions.com>
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Corey Touchet
<corey.touchet@corp.totalserversolutions.com> wrote:
> What I would like to see is someone who sets up a VPN that has an endpoin=
t
> path that=C2=B9s the same as NetFlix.  If their streaming performance imp=
roves
> that would be very telling.  Heck you could use 2 machines and do a side
> by side.

Been done:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/netflix-slow-on-veriz=
on-or-comcast-a-vpn-might-speed-up-that-video/
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186673-how-to-use-a-vpn-to-boost-your-ne=
tflix-performance-even-if-youre-not-a-verizon-customer
http://www.techhive.com/article/2457642/how-a-netflix-subscriber-used-vpn-t=
o-thwart-verizons-streaming-slowdown.html


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