I replied to Dan off list to investigate. Any Prime Video quality issues reported to an ISP by customers or CDN issues can be sent directly to primevideo-isp...@amazon.com .
Thanks, Sean >> On Dec 13, 2024, at 3:52 PM, Daniel Sterling <sterling.dan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> While streaming football last night from AT&T fiber (AS7018), I >> noticed the video quality went way down when I did a large download on >> another system. I have gigabit fiber but I'm using Linux tc to >> throttle my network traffic. I've configured cake with a 200mbit >> limit, and I also use a low BQL setting to further ensure low latency >> for low-bandwidth traffic. >> >> IOW, my Linux router will drop packets across the board rather >> liberally in the face of large downloads, but I've always seen streams >> fight back for their share of the bandwidth -- except for amazon's. >> >> The live stream appears to use UDP on a non-standard port (not 443). >> Does anyone know what amazon has done to cause their congestion >> control algorithms to yield so much bandwidth and not fight for their >> fair share? >> >> Thanks, >> Dan
