daredevil crashing netflix servers ?

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ilovemusic

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#171253 11-Apr-2015 10:27

starting watching the series last night as soon as it went live via the netflix app on my oppo bdp and got a very unstable hd stream, an occasional 720/1080 spurt then dropping back to sd and worse.
5.1 sound was constant though.

other programs played ok.

this morning tried to watch daredevil and got an error message saying they were having trouble with this program.
fired up the pc and the show streams fine - hd + 5.1 sound.

does netflix use different servers for online viewing and application based viewing ?

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#1280948 11-Apr-2015 10:46

Just watched the entire first episode on my Chromecast. It didn't stutter or buffer and seemed to be HD all the time.

But I was logged onto the US Netflix site, not NZ.

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#1280966 11-Apr-2015 11:36

Who's your ISP?

Are you on the NZ version of Netflix or are you using a proxy/vpn to get the US edition?

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#1280970 11-Apr-2015 11:48

Mine was 480p 5.1 on unlimitedinternet using unotelly to the US.

Ive been thinking of switching to bigpipe for a while.....

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#1280971 11-Apr-2015 11:56

If anything was going to affect things on Netflix's side it would have been House of Cards S3 premiere.

Inphinity

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#1281067 11-Apr-2015 13:16

I watched the first three episodes, starting about 5min after it went live, and it was HD the whole time with no buffering/stability issues, on my PC. Haven't tried it from the app. Netflix NZ, so no DNS/VPN trickery.

ilovemusic

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#1281074 11-Apr-2015 13:30

myfullflavour: Who's your ISP?

Are you on the NZ version of Netflix or are you using a proxy/vpn to get the US edition?

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#1281080 11-Apr-2015 13:49

I heard that Spark hasn't got Netflix cache servers implemented inside it's network yet, so traffic is coming from Sydney.

It's possible there is a bit of congestion between Spark and Netflix in Sydney.

Would be interesting to hear if other Spark users are having similar issues.

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#1281088 11-Apr-2015 14:10

Just tested on my PS3, US Netflix, Vodafone Cable (100/20) and Unotelly. 1080 5.1 all the time no buffering.

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Inphinity

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#1281151 11-Apr-2015 16:43

Spark UFB here.

NonprayingMantis

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#1281214 11-Apr-2015 20:19

myfullflavour: I heard that Spark hasn't got Netflix cache servers implemented inside it's network yet, so traffic is coming from Sydney.

It's possible there is a bit of congestion between Spark and Netflix in Sydney.

Would be interesting to hear if other Spark users are having similar issues.

Why wouldn't netflix put their content on local Akamai clusters like every other content provider? (Lightbox, tnnz on demand, etc)

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#1281216 11-Apr-2015 20:37

NonprayingMantis: Why wouldn't netflix put their content on local Akamai clusters like every other content provider? (Lightbox, tnnz on demand, etc)

Afaik the big CDNs weren't interested in their large traffic volumes (i.e. for Akamai it would hurt their relationship with the cable company ISPs).

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#1281219 11-Apr-2015 20:40

NonprayingMantis:

Why wouldn't netflix put their content on local Akamai clusters like every other content provider? (Lightbox, tnnz on demand, etc)

As far as I'm aware Netflix primarily use their own CDN, Netflix OpenConnect.

That said, it's a bit odd, I see akamaiso and akamaitp among the CDN options, and if the last two characters refernce TLDs, they are East Timor and Somalia Akamai locations, but I may be completely offbase there.

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#1281231 11-Apr-2015 21:13

Inphinity:
NonprayingMantis:

Why wouldn't netflix put their content on local Akamai clusters like every other content provider? (Lightbox, tnnz on demand, etc)

As far as I'm aware Netflix primarily use their own CDN, Netflix OpenConnect.

That said, it's a bit odd, I see akamaiso and akamaitp among the CDN options, and if the last two characters refernce TLDs, they are East Timor and Somalia Akamai locations, but I may be completely offbase there.

If they aren't willing to put content into nz locations, then I think it wouldn't be surprising to find congestion problems as they get more and more customers. All the smaller providers do it.

Off topic: just watched first episode of daredevil. Not bad.

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#1281239 11-Apr-2015 21:38

NonprayingMantis:

If they aren't willing to put content into nz locations, then I think it wouldn't be surprising to find congestion problems as they get more and more customers. All the smaller providers do it.

They will support ISPs or other providers in offering caching servers. There are at least a few in NZ already (for example, I had a stream come from 103.13.116.194 earlier today, and it seems to be a Vibe-hosted server), and quite a few in Aus.

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#1281243 11-Apr-2015 21:44

No problem on Spark ADSL, US Netflix via Unblock US. Good quality stream, no buffering.

Good showas well. I will watch again

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