Netflix is on your Tubes
Via Engadget, Sandvine reports:
The bandwidth manufacturer has released a report that concludes that over twenty percent of stateside peak time downstream Internet traffic is gobbled up by Netflix streams, with the heaviest use going down in the primetime hours between 8 to 10 pm.
Doesn't surprise me; we watch a lot of Netflix (my daughter uses it a lot, mostly to catch up on shows she didn't think she'd like at first). More and more content is going to head this way, and the local cable company is going to pull its hair out over it....