Netflix Video Speed On FiOS Doubles After Netflix-Verizon Deal

An anonymous reader writes: Verizon now joins AT&T and Time Warner Cable in the list of ISPs on which Netflix streaming has significantly improved after Netflix paid for access to their networks. Ars Technica notes that "[t]he interconnection deals give Netflix a direct connection to the edge of the Internet providers' networks, bypassing congested links, but without receiving priority treatment after entering the networks." The success of these deals, however, gives the ISPs no incentive whatsoever to fix their congested links. Toll roads have, in essence, been created for the internet.

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Re:Boycott will end this in less than a week

[sexconker]

the only way to reach these companies would be to either eschew legal methods of home entertainment (along with 100m other people), or shoot some executives.

Or?

Re:Boycott will end this in less than a week

[thegarbz]

A boycott? My dear friend are you from one of those mythical "ideal world" thingies I've been reading about?

The roads to and from Netflix were congested...

[jd2112]

NJ Governor Chris Christie style!