I read about this a while ago.
While I don't use Netflix, I read about using a VPN provider called:
hidemyass.com, costs about $10/month or so, and it seems to get around
the clogged peering point.
JBB
On 7/22/14, 12:52 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
<[email protected]> wrote:
So I VPN'd into work (We have a non-split-tunnel VPN available), and then we
can watch it, no problem. It's the same content, being delivered over the
same network, only it's encrypted and hidden from FiOS's routers. There's
no other explanation, simply, caught red handed.
You've got the right fix, but for the wrong reason. It's not the
encryption, it's the routing.
Basically Verizon has a great big unsaturated network. Level 3 (who
hosts a lot of Netflix content) has a great big unsaturated network.
The peering point between the two networks is 100% utilized. There's
good info on it here:
http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/verizons-accidental-mea-culpa/
When you VPN into work, you're now using Verizon's peering point with
whatever ISP hosts your company, which is unsaturated. Then your
movie streams over the Level 3 peering point with your company's ISP.
You effectively route around their damage.
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