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Isn't the Comcast / Netflix deal basically Netflix used to pay cogent to carry the traffic to Comcast, and now they're paying Comcast directly? Assuming the costs are in the same ballpark I don't see this being as huge a deal as it's being made out to be.
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adorai posted:They aren't double dipping. Netflix added Comcast as an upstream ISP for less money than they were paying cogent to be an ISP. There is likely an agreement that traffic that Netflix sends directly to Comcast won't leave the Comcast network, but either way, there is no more double dip than there is when I download a movie from bittorrent from another subscriber of my ISP. Exactly. Netflix is already paying somebody to carry that traffic to Comcast. Now they're just paying Comcast directly for that portion of the traffic.
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Feb 25, 2014 02:28
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That approximately lines up with when Netflix started providing Super HD to everyone, including Comcast customers. Higher file sizes across the same size links leads to a degraded experience for everyone.
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Feb 25, 2014 04:39
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