Netflix CEO Reed Hastings REUTERS / Mike Cassese
It’s been almost two months of the arrival of Netflix to Spain, and that means we have the first speed indexes that the company based in Los Gatos published in all countries where it operates.
operating speed index consists of a total sample of transfers Netflix makes its customers. The figure shown is the average of all Netflix users, grouped by operator, connected during prime time: from 20h to 22h
The best speeds in the world
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Operators tolerable, R and Euskaltel provide the best interconnection with Netflix in the world. The installation of fiber late in Spain, involved installing technology fiber to the home, of which Spain is a leader in Europe with nearly 2 million households with contract.
In Europe it is much more common connection HFC, which is optical fiber, but the last step uses coaxial cable, suffering bandwidth upstream . The HFC connections are widespread in Europe and the US, and although it is widespread in Spain in Spain remained behind the ADSL and has now been overtaken by the FTTH.
Even with the mixture of ADSL, HFC and fiber FTTH fiber, speeds Spanish regional operators Telecable, Euskaltel and R, obtained the best score in the world in this particular metric .
Connection average for Spanish operators with Netflix during the prime. Beside bittrate data for various media. -. It combines direct, indirect Fiber, Wimax and ADSL connections irregularly
The case Movistar
Netflix average interconnection rate in peak times, including connections with Movistar rural ADSL, Wimax, etc at the level of the worst, not only in Europe but in the world. Telefónica has provided comprehensive replies to this data.
Netflix has spoken of “performance issues” before, and Telefonica was “investigating the problems,” but at peak times many users still experience Movistar times Load unusual for this type of connection.
While this measure is limited to a specific time, it makes sense to do it when most people want to see the content.
how much we really need?
Scene Narcos, an original series . Netflix
Netflix in particular, uses three bitrates different 1080p: ~ 3.8 Mbps, 4.3 Mbps and 5.8Mbps ~, Netflix called “Super HD” . The 4K content Netflix has a bitrates approximately 15Mbps.
What does this mean? A connection with lower average will have to settle for periods of intermittent load – buffering -. Or lowered quality at 720p or 1080p lighter version
The average figures around the world indicate that on average there are many people watching content to less quality due to the connection or device. tablets, smartphones, televisions or players 720p, etc.
The test speed are useless in this regard . If the connection to servers Netflix, YouTube, iTunes, etc. suffers from saturation of some sort, no matter we have 100 Mbps, 300 Mbps, or 1 hired Gbps.
The problem with these measurements
The measurements are limited to specific hours maximum audience, which makes sense because that’s when you can judge at a glance under greater pressure data.
Netflix should reel over the data, the average one is worth
However, average offer alone is not representative comes close. also combine data from direct fiber to the home, fiber coaxial, multi-generation ADSL, Wimax networks, etc.
The data do not say much, we should be able to access this data shelled by connection type, by time, and by geographic area. At a minimum, Netflix should publish medium and percentiles separated off every half data, so at a glance could have a much better idea of the reality.
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