Re: Many players make up application performance (was Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity)

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Corey Touchet
<corey.touchet () corp totalserversolutions com> wrote:
> What I would like to see is someone who sets up a VPN that has an endpoint
> path that¹s the same as NetFlix.  If their streaming performance improves
> that would be very telling.  Heck you could use 2 machines and do a side
> by side.

Been done:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/netflix-slow-on-verizon-or-comcast-a-vpn-might-speed-up-that-video/
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186673-how-to-use-a-vpn-to-boost-your-netflix-performance-even-if-youre-not-a-verizon-customer
http://www.techhive.com/article/2457642/how-a-netflix-subscriber-used-vpn-to-thwart-verizons-streaming-slowdown.html


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