Verizon Throttling Netflix Traffic as Part of Temporary Video Optimization Test

[Larry The L]

Great! I'm gonna throttle my payment as part of an "expense optimization test".

Brilliant idea VZ!

And so you should. Deduct 20% from your next bill. Tell Verizon that I said it was OK.
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Silly verizon.

Stupid Verizon.

Time to picket Verizon's national headquarters. Who is with me on this?

 

[macsrcool1234]

Too late to do what exactly?

It is far more difficult to get them to stop throttling then to prevent it in the first place...

 

[UL2RA]

It is far more difficult to get them to stop throttling then to prevent it in the first place...

And how are you going to get them to stop throttling now?

 

[hotgril]

I think the carriers should be allowed to provide content.

They just can't limit other content. There shouldn't be limits on ANY content.

Besides... does anything think this will make you cancel Netflix and sign up with Verizon's homegrown video service instead?

Is that really Verizon's plan here?

My parents did cancel Amazon's instant video service when they had FiOS because it was way too slow... on a 50mbit/s connection. It was really fishy because everything else was fast, and I find it hard to believe that Amazon's servers are that slow. They ended up paying for Verizon's similarly-priced video service.

 

[Michael Scrip]

My parents did cancel Amazon's instant video service when they had FiOS because it was way too slow... on a 50mbit/s connection. It was really fishy because everything else was fast, and I find it hard to believe that Amazon's servers are that slow. They ended up paying for Verizon's similarly-priced video service.

Wow... really? Well I guess it's "mission accomplished" for Verizon then.

What exactly is Verizon's video service?

Is it that Go90 thing?

 

[klrobinson999]

Actually net neutrality prohibits this kind of behavior and the new FCC chair wants to allow and even encourage it by eliminating net neutrality.

Ummm... Yes, notice I said the new FCC chair wants to end the current Net Neutrality practice.

 

[Aaargh!]

10mbps is not slow and you don't need anything higher on a mobile device, you just don't.

LOL, what century do you live in ?

 

[macsrcool1234]

And how are you going to get them to stop throttling now?

Give them negative press, vote with your wallet, e.g.....

 

[chasescott66]

I think when people talk about coverage they need to talk about where they live. I live in the southeast and VZ coverage is terrible. My neighbors had VZ and had to get a network extender for their house. Step outside and VZ stops working. TMO on the hand is great, and blazingly fast. Coverage here is something like ATT > TMO >>> VZ. Also, if you do much traveling to Europe TMO >>> other US carriers.

I live in the southeast as well, but have had the opposite experience. I travel a decent amount for work and VZ is far and away the best carrier. I had TMO for about 9 months and the coverage was abysmal, finally switched back this past February(actually 2 days before the VZ Unlimited announcement) and couldn't be happier.

 

[cmwade77]

My parents did cancel Amazon's instant video service when they had FiOS because it was way too slow... on a 50mbit/s connection. It was really fishy because everything else was fast, and I find it hard to believe that Amazon's servers are that slow. They ended up paying for Verizon's similarly-priced video service.

It is really fishy, Amazon's servers are some of the fastest in the world and well to be blunt Verizon uses AWS (Amazon Web Servers) for the bulk of their streaming (if not all of it now), so something is really fishy there.
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IMHO, not that big of a deal. They explained why, the test is over now. I'm sure all networks do those kinds of tests, and of course, they'd prefer to throttle outside companies, not their own, so they don't lose money. Sucks, but at least it's just a test and temporary.

Just my two cents.

They violated net neutrality laws by doing this, those affected need to report it to the FCC and insist that the law as it presently stands is enforced and that Verizon is massively fined for doing this and call Verizon and insist upon a rate reduction for the past month for doing this.

 

[imronburgundy]

What if you use a VPN will this disable data prioritization ?

Yes. I performed a speed test on fast.com straight through LTE, 9mbps multiple times. Turned on my VPN and tested speed via fast.com over LTE, 25mbps+. Same with speed testing through speedtest.net, 25mbps+.