I always hear about people saying "I can't play YouTube videos!" or like the comments above this "Netflix keeps buffering!". I've had absolutely zero issues like that.

But, I'm starting to think that people's issues with their home internet comes down to their network setup. I have the fast Asus RT-N66u with Tomato firmware, good QoS rules, Apple TV wired and not wireless, etc.

Maybe some of these folks have the crappy gateway from the ISP, or really bad wireless environments, or bad cabling.

Case in point, I was at a person's house the other day who wasn't even aware that their DSL connection from Bell was disconnecting every 5-10 mins for 30secs or so (probably due to bad phone lines in the old building).

But they went on watching Netflix and checking their email totally unaware. So Netflix drops it quality or buffers a little then continues on it's way and people go "Oh man, my ISP sucks! Netflix is always buffering!"

I bet there's a good business in going around to people's homes to fix network issues.