Netflix Rates Broadband Providers by Bandwidth2011-01-28 09:34 by DanielaTags: Netflix, broadband
Have you wondered how your Internet Service Provider stacks up against the competition when it comes to delivering streaming video to your home? It seems Netflix has been wondering, too, so today it launched what will be a monthly feature at its tech blog comparing average bit rate speeds of major ISPs in the United States and Canada. The first installment of the feature shows Charter leading all U.S. ISPs with an average speed of consistently over 2600 kbps from October 2010 to Jan. 15 of this year. Comcast finished second in the running with a speed slightly under 2600 kbps for the period. No U.S. provider, though, came close to Canada's Rogers which averaged 3020 kbps for the time frame. At the bottom of the heap were Clearwire, Frontier and CenturyTel-all with speeds in the 1400 to 1600 kbps range. As Netflix streams more and more movies and TV shows to homes over the Internet, it is in a unique position to measure the performance of hundreds of millions of long duration, high-definition video streams, Netflix Director of Content Delivery Ken Florence explained at the company's tech blog. Read more -here-
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YARDofSTUF - 2011-01-28 17:16
Thats a great idea, glad they are doing it.
LOL Rogers?? Isn't Rogers and Bell now forcing all providers that they supply for to drop all customers to some unreal bandwidth cap now?? I've been reading 25gigs which will put customers way over with even a average amount of usage. Heard many people way over 100k are signing up to fight it and its growing everyday. If even those of us in the US don't support a fight against this type of cap or cap in general we too may suffer this type of fate.
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