Fishy. From Slackerboy @reddit:
> Yeah I have seen the peering agreements with L3 and Comcast,
> this story is complete BS.
>
>> Before Level 3 Communications landed the Netflix CDN deal,
>> it sent approximately the same amount of traffic to Comcast
>> as it received.
>
> This is a flat out lie, end consumer networks like Comcast ALWAYS
> receive FAR more traffic then they send. Note how you get something
> like 5 megs down and 1 meg up... wonder why? Because as an end
> user you are not allowed to run any servers or serve any services.
>
> When you request a YouTube video you send maybe 20KB up stream
> and receive 50-200MB back. Comcast has NEVER had more then 5%
> upstream.
>
> I am smelling a Comcast fed story here.