[186717] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix stuffing data on pipe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Hoppes)
Tue Dec 29 22:16:19 2015
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From: Matt Hoppes <mhoppes@indigowireless.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAC6=tfaxmo3_7ze60L0WkYT+dJY0+k8_fzVgPNXHMk+BY7ipiA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:15 -0500
To: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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So they are trying to stuff every last bit as an end device modulates up and=
down?
Or are you saying that's how they determine if they can scale up the resolut=
ion "because there is more throughout available now".=20
> On Dec 29, 2015, at 22:10, Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com> wrote:
>=20
> Adaptive bandwidth detection.
>=20
>> On Dec 29, 2015 8:59 PM, "Matt Hoppes" <mhoppes@indigowireless.com> wrote=
:
>> Has anyone else observed Netflix sessions attempting to come into custome=
r CPE devices at well in excess of the customers throttled plan?
>>=20
>> I'm not talking error retries on the line. I'm talking like two to three t=
imes in excess of what the customers CPE device can handle.
>>=20
>> 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 p=
urpose Netflix would have for attempting to do this.
>>=20
>> Curious if anyone else has seen it?