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It's really simple, people. The links that Comcast is carrying Netflix traffic over is getting saturated during peak hours. I am certainly not a fan of Comcast but I don't think they are actively doing anything to screw with Netflix traffic, they just aren't doing anything to fix it.

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This could be tested easily by pinging multiple destinations (besides Netflix) on peak hours

Only if you can ensure that those pings are traversing the same circuits that the Netflix traffic is.

(And, even if you can, you can't be sure of the reverse path -- something so many people don't understand when doing traceroutes.)

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