I'm in Newport paying for gigabit from cox and the last week or so (that's when I started noticing the issue at least) in the evenings until fairly late at night netflix is completely unwatchable. My fast.com speed tests when netflix isn't working range between about 500Kbit/s - 2Mbit/s. My buddy in Aliso confirms having the exact same issues also on cox. Speedtest.net shows 850Mbit/s+ so there's definitely a throttling issue happening with netflix (congestion is the same as throttling, bandwidth is cheap!).
I'll probably downgrade from gigabit next month, they wont let me pull more than about 350Mbit consistently from anywhere that isn't speedtest.net anyways even with a ton of threads. I can't wait for net neutrality to be repealed...it can always get worse right!
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