joebarnhart
Paxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA
| I suspect Comcast is throttling already
My mom's Comcast connection has been very problematic when trying to watch movies on her Roku box. My Roku has a Paxio connection and there are no problems or limits (except the Roku player does not stream HD yet).
The more popular these streaming players get, the more yelling we'll hear about Comcast and their customer-hostile policies. Maybe if we all yell loud enough we'll get some changes in their attitude.
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tshirt
Premium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
 ·Comcast
2 edits | said by joebarnhart  :My mom's Comcast connection has been very problematic when trying to watch movies on her Roku box. My Roku has a Paxio connection and there are no problems or limits (except the Roku player does not stream HD yet). The more popular these streaming players get, the more yelling we'll hear about Comcast and their customer-hostile policies. Maybe if we all yell loud enough we'll get some changes in their attitude. What's customer hostile about making heavy bandwidth users pay more? I see Paxio quotes $145 a month, I'm guessing comcast will happily provide 50/10+ and high /no caps the day all subs pay $145/ for HSI.
In fact they'd probaly be happy to partner with Netflix for part of the mailing cost Netflix saves by not mailing back and forth (plus packaging, loss, warehouse space, machinery, employees, etc.).
(I guess 100/100Mbps is now $94/mo + assortted fees) |
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joebarnhart
Paxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA
| Mom would be thrilled if we could just get the 2.2Mbps needed for a high-quality stream on the Roku box. Seems like she only gets about 600k sustained from her 4M Comcast connection. Oddly enough, the limitation only affects Netflix traffic -- speedtests confirm 4Mbps for normal web traffic. |
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
·Comcast
| said by joebarnhart :Mom would be thrilled if we could just get the 2.2Mbps needed for a high-quality stream on the Roku box. Seems like she only gets about 600k sustained from her 4M Comcast connection. Oddly enough, the limitation only affects Netflix traffic -- speedtests confirm 4Mbps for normal web traffic. Netflix/Comcast issue has been an ongoing issue. Comcast is not throttling.
If you haven't done so, you can force the roku to use HQ streaming:
Using the remote, hit Home Home Home Home Home Rewind Rewind Rewind FastForward FastForward (that's 5 Homes, 3 Rewinds, 2 FastForwards), keypresses about 1/2 second apart. |
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joebarnhart
Paxio evangelist
join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA
| Yep. Tried that. It doesn't get the movie at all when I force the quality level to three or four. The bandwidth just is not available when watching Netflix on Comcast.
How do you know Comcast isn't throttling, exactly? They have denied previous schemes w/respect to P2P traffic, so I don't actually believe any denials from Comcast itself. |
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
·Comcast
| said by joebarnhart :How do you know Comcast isn't throttling, exactly? Comcast and I have a special relationship. |
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captain456
@gci.com
| reply to Rob
said by Rob :said by joebarnhart :Mom would be thrilled if we could just get the 2.2Mbps needed for a high-quality stream on the Roku box. Seems like she only gets about 600k sustained from her 4M Comcast connection. Oddly enough, the limitation only affects Netflix traffic -- speedtests confirm 4Mbps for normal web traffic. Netflix/Comcast issue has been an ongoing issue. Comcast is not throttling. If you haven't done so, you can force the roku to use HQ streaming: Using the remote, hit Home Home Home Home Home Rewind Rewind Rewind FastForward FastForward (that's 5 Homes, 3 Rewinds, 2 FastForwards), keypresses about 1/2 second apart. Can you provide more information on the so called known issue with comcast and netflix? Netflix instant watch movies are delived VIA limelight networks. Comcast (like every major ISP and even most small ISP's) has direct peering with limelight networks. Depending on your physical location you will be receiving your data from Limelight closest servers that are directly peered with the comcast network.
Without making this longer, can you shed some moer light? Because at face value it doesn't add up. |
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| reply to Rob
I think what he means here is that he would be one of those people not being forthright concerning their practices until it is proven and reproduced by multiple people.
Then AND only then will they begin to try to justify why they shouldn't just be the dumbpipes they are. |
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beaups
join:2003-08-11
Hilliard, OH | reply to joebarnhart
or perphaps your mom has a bad box, or a bad ethernet cable...or just a general network problem...cox related or otherwise. Just because yours works and hers does not does not mean (necessarily) that it is the isp.... |
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