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Comment by alecco

Fishy. From Slackerboy @reddit:

  > Yeah I have seen the peering agreements with L3 and Comcast,
  > this story is complete BS.
  >
  >> Before Level 3 Communications landed the Netflix CDN deal,
  >> it sent approximately the same amount of traffic to Comcast
  >> as it received.
  >
  > This is a flat out lie, end consumer networks like Comcast ALWAYS
  > receive FAR more traffic then they send. Note how you get something
  > like 5 megs down and 1 meg up... wonder why? Because as an end
  > user you are not allowed to run any servers or serve any services.
  >
  > When you request a YouTube video you send maybe 20KB up stream
  > and receive 50-200MB back. Comcast has NEVER had more then 5%
  > upstream.
  >
  > I am smelling a Comcast fed story here.
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parent alecco 16 years ago

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