[186718] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Netflix stuffing data on pipe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Tue Dec 29 22:19:18 2015
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In-Reply-To: <5C87D549-DB76-40B8-BD64-40449C2F84E1@indigowireless.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:17:51 -0600
From: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
To: Matt Hoppes <mhoppes@indigowireless.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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The second part. Fixed wireless is not even on their radar.
On Dec 29, 2015 9:16 PM, "Matt Hoppes" <mhoppes@indigowireless.com> wrote:
> 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
> resolution "because there is more throughout available now".
>
> On Dec 29, 2015, at 22:10, Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
