Thursday, September 13, 2012

Netflix and Comcast


I watch netflix instant regularly on my two roku devices and on my PC.  I've enjoyed HD  video for over a year. Two weeks ago the picture degraded and is worse than SD.  It's not a bandwidth issue or a wireless signal issue.  I've eliminated both.  I called netflix twice.  They believe comcast, my cable company is throttling them.   This fits, since I have ample bandwidth and other services, like Amazon still produce a good HD signal.  Netflix will email me data they have used to determine this.  I will share it with Comcast and see where I can get.  Wish me luck.

UPDATE:
I had an online chat with a support person at Comcast.  Comcast believes netflix is as fault.  Although the issue has not been resolved, Comcast agreed to work directly with netflix to resolve the issue.  I was pleased they were willing to take this step.

Monday, September 03, 2012

Mental Fish


My youngest two sons were having an epic battle royale, they type that only two brothers can have.  I separated them and sent them each to their own rooms.  While talking with one of them they told me their brother thought a long list of unkind and hurtful things.  I told him he didn’t know what his brother was thinking only what he was thinking.  He told me I was wrong, because he had mental tilapia.  

I wonder if he intertied mental fish from me or his mother?