Netflix buffering issues during Mike Tyson fight

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drhowarddrfine

I'm not a boxing aficionado but tried to watch this out of curiosity. However, if you haven't heard, Netflix had buffering issues that started during the event right before the Tyson fight. It hung at 25% for so long, I gave up and went to bed.

My biggest fear is that the FreeBSD Connect machines might be pointed to as the problem. However, those machines are only at the last mile--from the ISP to the home. Since this was a nationwide problem in the USA, I'm more inclined to think it was an issue of national distribution out of Dallas, TX and whatever carrier they use.

Netflix has not responded to requests for information yet.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
Netflix had buffering issues
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I seem to think an encoder issue too combined with pipe issues. Maybe network control problems...

They got two NFL Games for Christmas Day. They had better have some real meetings on Monday morning.

NFL is real viewership. They mess that up they are toast.

Tyson PPV events in the 80's cost more than a month of Netflix. My point is this was just freebee for subscribing?
So what do you want. Everything for nothing. Especially for this important social media clownshow?
 
And to the point how much spare capacity would you need to host these "Special Events" and can your existing hardware handle it.

This clownshow had maybe 80M attempted viewers,
NFL XMAS day shows are about 200M.
 
That's an interesting point.
Did the other channels work fine?
Just the special event failed?
Just think of the spare capacity you need for "Network TV" scale. They (big 3 TV networks) been at this a while....
 
cracauer@ Yes, that's what I said, but I was curious as to whether some boxes might be in the path somewhere. If nothing else, one needs to be aware of social media types who will be quick to point to it as the issue even when it's not.
 
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