Re: Netflix stuffing data on pipe

[Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>]

On Tue 2015-Dec-29 21:17:51 -0600, Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com> wrote:

> The second part. Fixed wireless is not even on their radar.
> On Dec 29, 2015 9:16 PM, "Matt Hoppes" <mhoppes () indigowireless com> wrote:
>
> > So they are trying to stuff every last bit as an end device modulates up
> > and down?
> >
> > Or are you saying that's how they determine if they can scale up the
> > resolution "because there is more throughout available now".
> >
> > On Dec 29, 2015, at 22:10, Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com> wrote:
> >
> > Adaptive bandwidth detection.
> > On Dec 29, 2015 8:59 PM, "Matt Hoppes" <mhoppes () indigowireless com> wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone else observed Netflix sessions attempting to come into
> > > customer CPE devices at well in excess of the customers throttled plan?
> > >
> > > I'm not talking error retries on the line. I'm talking like two to three
> > > times in excess of what the customers CPE device can handle.
> > >
> > > I'm observing massive buffer overruns in some of our switches that appear
> > > to be directly related to this. And I can't figure out what possible good
> > > purpose Netflix would have for attempting to do this.

Pardon my ignorance of WISP-specific bits here, but how are they supposed 
to know to back off on their bitrate ramp-up if you keep buffering rather 
than dropping packets when the TX rate exceeds the customer's service rate?  
Or what am I missing?

> > > Curious if anyone else has seen it?

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