How do you know you're getting throttled when you use Netflix? Or for that matter, know who is doing the throttling? Maybe you're just seeing the effect of a bursting service such as Comcast's Powerboost... or maybe after a few minutes your buffer is full and it slows down the stream to the speed you're watching it. Netflix, unlike YouTube, doesn't buffer the whole clip - just the bit ahead of what you're watching right now.
I'm not sure I understand why you think using "high ports and low ports" could "easily be viewed as warez bandwidth." Besides, doesn't Netflix's software use random port numbers?
Originally posted by dagwoodsystems:
Apparently, Comcast doesn't believe this is true. Either that or they are simply taking the easy way out by blocking well-known ports of file sharing programs.
No, they were using Sandvine to monitor and disrupt P2P activity specifically by forging TCP packets with the RST flag set on outbound traffic, causing the connections to be dropped. Thus, Comcast P2P users got great download speeds while uploads would slow to a crawl. Clever, but not cool according to the FCC.
