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ticklemyelmo on May 18, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fast.com: Netflix internet connection speed test

>ISPs can't prioritize it without prioritizing netflix as well

There are all kinds of tricks they could use to game this. If they applied their throttles over a 5 min window for instance. I'm really curious what Netflix is doing to guard against that, if anything.

rthomas6 on May 19, 2016 | [–]

Could Netflix start a new TCP connection every 5 minutes?

merb on May 18, 2016 | [–]

make a longer test which downloads a video for 10 minutes.

thaumasiotes on May 18, 2016 | [–]

What's the point of the test? Watch a video for 10 or more minutes. Same thing.

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