[186716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix stuffing data on pipe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Tue Dec 29 22:10:53 2015
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In-Reply-To: <6317C965-2A8D-4806-B146-B137AC6ED7B3@indigowireless.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:10:51 -0600
From: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
To: Matt Hoppes <mhoppes@indigowireless.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Adaptive bandwidth detection.
On Dec 29, 2015 8:59 PM, "Matt Hoppes" <mhoppes@indigowireless.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else observed Netflix sessions attempting to come into customer
> CPE devices at well in excess of the customers throttled plan?
>
> I'm not talking error retries on the line. I'm talking like two to three
> times in excess of what the customers CPE device can handle.
>
> I'm observing massive buffer overruns in some of our switches that appear
> to be directly related to this. And I can't figure out what possible good
> purpose Netflix would have for attempting to do this.
>
> Curious if anyone else has seen it?
