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Jan 8, 2014 2:21 PM in response to bodosomby Loner T,This may also be of interest in this thread - http://tinyurl.com/mq9waa7
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Jan 8, 2014 3:13 PM in response to bodosomby Tony Ramirez,I disconnected my ATV weeks ago but now as a update I am even having streaming problems on my PS3 which use to be rock solid and my Roku 3. Last night was bad. I watched Fringe on the PS3 and it would only play at that worthless 240p junk. I restarted a few times and it played fine. Then watched Chuck which I restarted twice and it played great until 20 or so minutes and then it droped down twice to that 240p junk. The PS3 since early last year use to never drop quality. Bones on the Roku 3 then dropped down to that 240p junk during the show but ramped up within a minute and it was fine. After Once Upon a Time took about 6 reloads as it started out at that fuzzy 240p junk which actually makes me sick looking at it. It played fine through the entire program. I had enough for the night.
I don't care who is to blame we are paying for service so Netflix needs to step up and open up more CDN's instead of wasting money on Original programing and pushing Open Connect as the only solution.
As I say even with the ATV and other devices mornings and afternoons it ramps up within 30 seconds and plays fine. This is with TWC 15/1.
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Jan 8, 2014 3:16 PM in response to Loner Tby Tony Ramirez,Great link. See proff that Open Connect ISP's performance is getting better every month while non Open Connect ISP's performance is getting worse every month. The way it is going for non Open Connect ISP's soon we won't be able to watch anything in the morning or afternoon either. This is pathetic. We are paying for a service do something about it.
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Jan 8, 2014 3:21 PM in response to DustyStormby Edison517,I got ntop installed on my iMac with Mavericks...where exactly should I look to find out which CDN my Apple TV is using?
For others who might wanna play with it, goto ntop.org to get the software, and then I also had to get port from macports.org and install that to get ntop installed...kind of a PITA...
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Jan 8, 2014 3:48 PM in response to Loner Tby bodosom,Loner T wrote:
This may also be of interest in this thread - http://tinyurl.com/mq9waa7
This is a link to the Netflix ISP monthly stats billboard. I prefer the list view myself but graph is "interactive".
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Jan 8, 2014 3:53 PM in response to Tony Ramirezby bodosom,Tony Ramirez wrote:
Great link. See proff that Open Connect ISP's performance is getting better every month while non Open Connect ISP's performance is getting worse every month.
Perhaps your looking at the wrong graph. E.g. Cox is consistently improving. The clear winner is Google which suggests that end to end speed matters more than anything else. What's more interesting is the October November decline. That must mean the ATV problem is effecting overall Netflix performance.
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Jan 8, 2014 4:16 PM in response to Edison517by bodosom,Edison517 wrote:
I got ntop installed on my iMac with Mavericks...where exactly should I look to find out which CDN my Apple TV is using?
Well first I managed to type ntop when I meant iftop. So if the snippet I pasted looks odd it's because it's not from ntop. Second: in a typical switched environment you need to be on the same "wire" which means running the monitor on your gateway or having a port mirroring switch.
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Jan 8, 2014 4:17 PM in response to bodosomby nbar,Everyone following the thread should use Netflix's hidden diagnostic tool:
Here's how to check your Apple TV's Netflix bandwidth using a ...
This may have already been posted.
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Jan 8, 2014 4:27 PM in response to Edison517by Loner T,Edison517 wrote:
I got ntop installed on my iMac with Mavericks...where exactly should I look to find out which CDN my Apple TV is using?
For others who might wanna play with it, goto ntop.org to get the software, and then I also had to get port from macports.org and install that to get ntop installed...kind of a PITA...
Using the built-in nTop web server
IP -> Summary -> Traffic -> Pick a source host -> Contacts (or Active Sessions) should work.
Bodosom may also be able to help.
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Jan 8, 2014 4:30 PM in response to Loner Tby Edison517,Cool, thanks. I found that before but my appletv is connecting to 224.0.0.251... I'm not sure which CDN that is
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Jan 8, 2014 4:43 PM in response to Edison517by lindelof,That is a multicast address, most likely from Bonjour. That isn't the CDN address you are looking for.
Edison517 wrote:
Cool, thanks. I found that before but my appletv is connecting to 224.0.0.251... I'm not sure which CDN that is
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Jan 8, 2014 9:53 PM in response to DustyStormby scottorchard,Count me in as another person suffering from this problem. I can get Super HD on my PS3, but a consistent 300-500 Kbps on our third-gen Apple TV, even an iPhone or iPad can get 3000 Kbps. We have 50 Mbps Time Warner Cable in Southern California.
I think I've tried all solutions offered in this thread, and nothing seems to work. iTunes, Hulu, etc., all work fine, great quality, no pixelation. I've given up and now use our PS3 for Netflix, I'm hoping this is resolved soon.
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Jan 9, 2014 4:17 AM in response to bodosomby Edison517,Ok, thanks for that. I got iftop to work on my Mac, but like you said, it's not helping me see which CDN my Apple TV is using. Since I only have my Airport Extreme, how would I be able to find out what CDN my ATV is running? I don't think I have a port mirror or anything like that
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Jan 9, 2014 8:37 AM in response to Edison517by bodosom,Edison517 wrote:
Since I only have my Airport Extreme, how would I be able to find out what CDN my ATV is running?
I don't think you can with the AE. I suspect the best approach is Internet sharing on your Mac but I haven't done it.
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Jan 9, 2014 9:04 AM in response to bodosomby Loner T,Should there be a separate thread on tools/how-to for monitoring/capturing ATV3/Netflix interaction? nTop just shows broadcast stuff, but nothing which is CDN-related. In promiscuous mode, any device on the same subnet should see traffic between ATV3 and Netflix, should it not?