[outages] Netflix

[Michael R. Self]

Seriously people. There are thousands of us on this list that use it FOR REAL. Some one having an issue with degraded Netflix streaming or they can't pull up their Facebook page is an abuse of this fine instrument we have for REAL problems.

Fibers cuts, Level3 ATM switches going down, EC2 AZ problems, etc. are real and service affecting to those of us that run networks and companies. Not one person's evening entertainment quality being reduced.

Can I please propose that we police ourselves enough to know that if what we are posting doesn't affect a large populous OR isn't germain to our livelihoods (network admins, techs, engineers, NOC personnel at any common carrier or ISP, etc) that it not be posted?

Today, any email from OUTAGES commands attention, respect and is a community, voluntary call to action -- like ringing the bell in an old west town. Let's please keep it that way.

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Cheers,
Mike

Sent from a thingy connected to the interwebs.

Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org> wrote:

Are you referring to me answering or the OP?  The "guys, come on" part I
find kind of offensive!

I understand your point and yes I should have paid more attention to the
posting - will give you that.  I'm quite familiar with their infrastructure.
But wasting a full paragraph on his wife cooking vs just getting to the
point would have created a lot less noise on this list too.

Paul Stewart

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Nash [mailto:billn at billn.net]
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 10:01 PM
To: Paul Stewart
Cc: Raman Sud; outages at outages.org
Subject: Re: [outages] Netflix

Guys, come on. You can't be serious with this. It's like you're
skipping even basic troubleshooting or identification of a potential
problem entirely. Knowing Raman, he sent this from his couch because
he saw a little degradation while streaming an episode of Entourage.
Nevermind that in his time zone, it's near dinner time, his TV's media
unit is probably on wireless, and his wife is more than likely cooking
dinner. Heating up a side dish is no reason to assume there's a
network outage or degradation that could possibly be noticed all the
way to Canada.

Netflix's service infrastructure is a varied beast that involves
Amazon's cloud services and no less than two CDNs, if not three. Make
the effort, instead of making noise.

- billn

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org> wrote:
> No issues from Toronto, ON Canada...
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> From: outages-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On
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> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 2:37 AM
> To: outages at outages.org
> Subject: [outages] Netflix
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> Seeing a lot of latency and bad streaming from netflix from phoenix.
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> Any one else seeing problems
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> Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com<http://www.nitrodesk.com>)
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