The West Wing keeps dropping down to SD from HD on my 85 Mbps connection.

[onehandle]

This has been happening for the last few weeks.

Verizon is indeed joining Comcast to punish those who stream Netflix.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. According to some here, that's ok.

Because we're "bandwith hogs".


Forget the fact that our broadband infrastructure is in the stone ages because of these corporations.

[onehandle]

2. We pay for that extra bandwidth.

I also paid for the considerable horsepower of my car.

Nobody is throttling that.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

3. My theory is still that this isn't about bandwith.

Verizon has their own movie streaming service that competes with Netflix.

[mn9driver]

4. They might be throttling it, or

It might be a hardware issue. Are you running Ethernet to your tv interface? Wifi? What kind of router do you have? Is your service ADSL or something else?

I run on a fiber connection that is rock solid at 30 Mbps, through a dual band wifi router with good signal to my TV. Every couple of weeks, the connection slows down and I reboot everything. Then it's good again.

I don't use one of the big providers. Verizon might be throttling, but some troubleshooting might solve the problem.

[onehandle]

6. I'm a technical guy and have done my troubleshooting.

Rebooted everything. Checked with multiple WiFi routers. Tested speed with multiple apps and on multiple platforms.

Also, iTunes on our AppleTV and other HD sources are at full resolution.

Netflix is being targeted.

[mn9driver]

7. Sounds like it.

What does ping and tracert show?

[KamaAina]

5. Much more here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024540668

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Guess what? It isn't you.

Verizon was accused of causing deliberate bottlenecks in Netflix traffic in 2013, months before net neutrality was overturned. Comcast has been accused of doing the same in years past. And Netflix has been of particular concern in the wake of the December ruling.

http://consumerist.com/2014/02/11/netflix-streaming-speeds-getting-worse-for-comcast-and-verizon-fios-customers/

As we wrote last summer, many months before a federal appeals court gutted net neutrality, the source of the Verizon/Netflix congestion appeared to be occurring at peering ports, the connection between Netflix’s bandwidth provider and the ISP (in this case, Verizon).

http://consumerist.com/2014/02/11/netflix-streaming-speeds-getting-worse-for-comcast-and-verizon-fios-customers/

apparently folks using anonymous surfing/hiding their DNS, were not having this problem.