I was going to take it off life support and let it die, but my-obsession got an inadvertent reprieve when godaddy automatically renewed it, so what the hell, what the heck...
From slashdot:
Netflix Throttling Instant Video Streaming
from the bandwidth-available-but-not-to-you dept.
rsk writes "For the last few weeks I've been experiencing terrible streaming video performance from Netflix on both my Xbox 360 and PC. While my Xbox 360 would at least stream at a lower resolution, my PC cannot seem to avoid 2-hr. buffering times before playback even started. I smelled shenanigans and started digging. With some help finding the debug menu for the streaming video player, I set out to figure out why playback was so slow. It seems that Netflix is significantly throttling Watch Instantly users (on the PC) down to an unusable cap — in my case, 48 kbps — on a per-connection basis."
I've only tried the instant streaming thing a time or two and just couldn't get it to work properly, so I settled into its regular DVD service, but this is interesting, eh?
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