Re: Netflix stuffing data on pipe

[Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com>]

It's a long and ugly story...

1Gbps FD feeds -> switch -> 100Mbps FD radio port -> fluctuating PHY rate
Half Duplex wireless link/CPE (shaped here).

Netflix is microbusting, and its really nasty on his kind of network,
especially with the shaping being toward the end of his network.
On Dec 30, 2015 1:59 AM, "Hugo Slabbert" <hugo () slabnet com> wrote:

> On Tue 2015-Dec-29 21:17:51 -0600, Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com>
> wrote:
>
> The second part. Fixed wireless is not even on their radar.
> > On Dec 29, 2015 9:16 PM, "Matt Hoppes" <mhoppes () indigowireless com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > So they are trying to stuff every last bit as an end device modulates up
> > > and down?
> > >
> > > Or are you saying that's how they determine if they can scale up the
> > > resolution "because there is more throughout available now".
> > >
> > > On Dec 29, 2015, at 22:10, Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Adaptive bandwidth detection.
> > > On Dec 29, 2015 8:59 PM, "Matt Hoppes" <mhoppes () indigowireless com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Has anyone else observed Netflix sessions attempting to come into
> > > > customer CPE devices at well in excess of the customers throttled plan?
> > > >
> > > > I'm not talking error retries on the line. I'm talking like two to three
> > > > times in excess of what the customers CPE device can handle.
> > > >
> > > > I'm observing massive buffer overruns in some of our switches that
> > > > appear
> > > > to be directly related to this. And I can't figure out what possible
> > > > good
> > > > purpose Netflix would have for attempting to do this.
> Pardon my ignorance of WISP-specific bits here, but how are they supposed
> to know to back off on their bitrate ramp-up if you keep buffering rather
> than dropping packets when the TX rate exceeds the customer's service
> rate?  Or what am I missing?
>
> Curious if anyone else has seen it?
> > > >
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