Oh man this is awesome. I can't wait till people start calling thier ISPs claiming they aren't getting the speeds they pay for, only for the poor agent to have to explain how peering agreements work.
I'm about to leave an ISP where many/most of the techs know what a peering agreement is and are happy to help troubleshoot tricky issues (e.g. did you know PJSIP doesn't do NAT rewriting?)
It's sad really, but I can now get similar quality of service for half the cost so I'd be silly to keep paying what I am.
It makes sense. Comcast is directly paid off (I mean peered) with Netflix, and they overprovision intentionally. See https://www.dslreports.com/faq/15643 if you are curious.
That link (https://www.dslreports.com/faq/15643) seems to be a list of Comcast's available bandwidth speeds, and doesn't mention Netflix or peering. Did you intend to post something that describes the interconnect agreement between the two companies?
Couldn't that just be gamed by allowing fast speeds for the initial connection of X size or Y Time and then dropping down to less once they guesstimate the test is over?
That proposed plan could probably be reverse gamed by Netflix by buffering streamed content with multiple separate connections. Or by including a way to check the speed mid stream. Or by allowing extended tests on fast.com. This is a classic cat and mouse game.
