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The ISP speed index from Netflix

3 pointsby moonlighteralmost 11 years ago

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higherpurposealmost 11 years ago
I think Netflix has a weird way of measuring bandwidth, unlike say the way Speedtest.net would do it. I&#x27;ve noticed this before when they compared Google Fiber to something like Comcast, and Google Fiber won, but was only slightly better, so I was thinking &quot;that can&#x27;t be right - Google&#x27;s fiber is 50x faster. So why isn&#x27;t that being shown here?&quot;<p>I think Netflix just shows what&#x27;s the &quot;maximum&quot; speed needed to deliver their service. It doesn&#x27;t actually measure the speed of that ISP&#x27;s connection. So all they care about in their test is whether the ISP meets that ~3 Mbps they need for a perfect Netflix streaming.