.@BoingBoing No, it's not throttling, it's congestion on the Verizon-Level 3 peer links: http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/verizons-accidental-mea-culpa/ …
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@BoingBoing The VPN is proxying the traffic to another provider that does not connect to Netflix via the congested link. -
@Object_InSpace@lippard@BoingBoing Is netflicks a cloud based thing that connects you to nearest server location or something? -
@Simon818@Object_InSpace@BoingBoing Netflix is cloud-based (uses Amazon Web Services). -
@lippard@Object_InSpace@BoingBoing Makes sense. I don't even have an account and never really paid attention to how it works. -
@Simon818@BoingBoing@lippard Netflix's "offer" is the OpenConnect system wherein they provide you a box for the content to flow through. -
@Object_InSpace@Simon818@BoingBoing Which Verizon doesn't use... https://www.netflix.com/openconnect - 1 more reply
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@BoingBoing Comcast does it too...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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