On July 29, 2014 6:41:45 PM EDT, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: => On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Paul Graydon wrote: => => > On 07/28/14 11:02, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: => >>> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- => >>> boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Leon Towns-von Stauber
=> => And as it has also been pointed out, Netflix controls the software at => both ends => of the connection and the inbound side of it's servers is pretty => idle, so it => could easily cause the clients to spew traffic back to the servers, => "improving" => the ratio, but the only benefit would be the game the => inbound/outbound ratio, it => would actually harm the Internet overall. => => They could probably push the ratio above 1:1 as a lot of people have => uplinks => that are faster than the max downlink speeds that Netflic provides. => Hmmm... I wonder about re-architecting Netflix so that each customer caches their downloaded content and serves it P2P within the same ISP network...now that content from Netflix doesn't cross any peering points. Lots of possible problems, but it's an interesting exercise. Mark => => David Lang -- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
