Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

[nanog () brettglass com]

Ironically, I did this with my Usenet news feed (which back then 
was the big bandwidth hog) 20 years ago. Mark Lottor set it up. I 
understand that someone has just been granted a dubious patent on 
the same technique, despite the well known prior art.

--Brett Glass

At 08:45 AM 7/13/2014, Aled Morris wrote:

> On 13 July 2014 06:39, Steven Tardy 
> <<mailto:sjt5atra () gmail com>sjt5atra () gmail com> wrote:
> (OK, Keep 100mbps for Netflix to pre-populate, 100mbps is 30TB/month)
> (Now I'm curious how many GB/month Netflix pre-populates, hmmm)
>
>
> Shame Netflix can't fill their appliances using really cheap, 
> bulk, one-way satellite bandwidth which is useless for most other 
> Internet applications. Â Then their traffic wouldn't use any of 
> your real, paid for, transit.
>
> Of course siting a dish would be another expense with hosting one 
> of their boxes, but if it made the on-going costs go away...
>
> AledÂ