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Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming

Posted by kdawson on from the bandwidth-available-but-not-to-you dept.

rsk writes "For the last few weeks I've been experiencing terrible streaming video performance from Netflix on both my Xbox 360 and PC. While my Xbox 360 would at least stream at a lower resolution, my PC cannot seem to avoid 2-hr. buffering times before playback even started. I smelled shenanigans and started digging. With some help finding the debug menu for the streaming video player, I set out to figure out why playback was so slow. It seems that Netflix is significantly throttling Watch Instantly users (on the PC) down to an unusable cap — in my case, 48 kbps — on a per-connection basis."

2 of 207 comments (clear)

  1. BitTorrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Piracy this. Piracy that. What about the consumers that actually you know.. DON'T PIRATE? They get treated like this.

    The people who pirate are better off. They get higher quality content and don't have to put up with the antics of corporations.

  2. Re:Time to cancel Netflix if true. by Binkleyz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Because I pay X dollars a month for Y speed (and am possibly subject to a monthly bandwith cap of W).

    Nothing in that equation allows them to vary X or Y because the content (Z) is one they do not approve of.

    End of story.