Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming

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."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Why do I have trouble sometimes streaming hulu videos. I have 8mbps cable with cox, but yet sometimes I get stuttering. But I click stop, the show continues to download but speeds up to 5-6mb a second?