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Prof. Ing. Giorgio Ventre
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Via Claudio 21
80125, Napoli, Italy
Tel: +39 081 7683908  Fax: +39 081 7683816 Mob: +39 3807679372 
E-mail: giorgio@unina.it
http://www.comics.unina.it
http://www.docenti.unina.it/giorgio.ventre
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Verizon made an enemy tonight

On a flight back to New York I read Level 3’s assessment of the latest round of the Netflix vs Internet Provider debacle.

The summarized version is that basically Netflix is slow because Verizon refuses to add capacity to peer with Level 3. Fixing the situation would cost Verizon on the order of a few thousand (that’s right thousand) dollars. Level 3 is even willing to foot the bill. But Verizon refuses.

Is Netflix actually slow on Verizon Fios?

I wasn’t sure how to test my Netflix speed. After a bit of googling I found an article by Wired on how to test your Netflix streaming speed. I followed their steps and I was shocked.

The video on netflix actually shows you how fast it is streaming to you which is helpful for ddiagnostics.

Here’s the test video on Netflix for quick reference

Keep in mind, I pay Verizon for 75 mbps down, 35 mbps up on my Fios connection.

This Netflix video streams at 375 kbps (or 0.375 mbps – 0.5% of the speed I pay for) at the fastest. I was shocked. Then I decided to try connecting to a VPN service to compare.

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Continua qui: http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Verizon-Fios-Netflix-Vyprvpn.html

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