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Tropicalwood posted...

realnifty1 posted...

Tropicalwood posted...

creativerealms posted...

It is quite possible that ISPs won't try to package the internet for more money. Maybe this fear is for nothing. I can't see the future only the past. When have companies ever had the best interests of consumers in mind? Never.

It's more likely that the ISPs will tell netflix to start paying for their outrageous bandwidth use so they aren't pushing shit on to the consumers and can profit off having more just subscribed to them.

Do you understand the internet? Netflix already has to pay for their bandwidth. NN means that when I go hey ISP fetch me some content from Netflix they have to treat that request the same as anyone else making any other request for any type of thing.

Netflix chews up an insane amount of the bandwidth in NA, about 30-40% during peak hours actually. Don't try and tell me Netflix doesn't gain something from ISPs not being able to tell them to pay up for their fast lanes.

So let me explain the problem to you in an oversimplified manner. An ISP sells 100 packages to customers telling them that their internet connection allows a rate of 10 requests per second. That would mean that if everyone was using their internet fully they would be making 1000 requests per second of the ISP. However the ISP can only actually handle 500 requests per second, they sold this way because before things like streaming video average requests were below 1 per second. Now NetFlix has created a service needing to transmit content at 8 requests per second. This service has proved popular and now more and more ISP customers are increasing their requests per second averages.

So the ISP's are unable to deliver on the contract they have formed with their customers because customers have started to use more of what was promised to them. This is NetFlix's fault how?