[TriLUG] Is TWC throttling CDN traffic (youtube/amazonprime/netflix) ?

Bill Farrow bill at arrowsreach.com
Mon Apr 8 11:41:05 EDT 2013


On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Charles Mangin <option8 at option8.com> wrote:
> One question about these TWC discussions:
>
> do the throttling or traffic shaping efforts of TWC effect those of us with Earthlink service
> piggybacked on TWC/Roadrunner? It's Time Warner's infrastructure, but Earthlink's network.


I'm not sure that we have enough hard information to say that TWC is
purposely "throttling" youtube or other video sites, it may just be
plain saturation of their links to the CDN servers that you are
accessing.  Should they upgrade these links - absolutely !

My understanding is that Earthlink customers share the physical
infrastructure to the home, but the backhaul and peering connections
are owned and managed by Earthlink and not TWC.  This means you may
have different bottlenecks :-)

Bill



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