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That's the beauty of HLS/DASH. Rather than just flat out stopping a la RealPlayer, they allow the video to continue until your network gets its act together. How is it the provider's fault if your network takes a dump for a bit?

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This would make sense for a live stream. But we are talking Netflix movies here.

If my network can maintain more bandwidth than needed for 1080p/4k most of the time (which it can) then there is no reason it should ever fall back to lower quality due to a short blip because you can keep several seconds (or minutes) of buffer.

For example I never have this problem on Youtube. Only Netflix.

MY network is plenty fast. I have 1gb down.

If they can't make it work with 1/10th of that, that is their problem, not mine.

We know that having bandwidth does not mean you get full use of that bandwidth. Even using AWS CLI to download large content from an S3 bucket does not saturate my 1Gbps line. There are all sorts of places in a network to prevent you from using the full bandwidth, namely your ISP. To that point, I would not be shocked one bit to find that your ISP is playing with data from Netflix. Hell, mobile carriers tell you they are doing it.

Just another reason why people might prefer bittorrent then if it can saturate the line and the netflix player can't.

I would prefer it would stop rather then downgrade to something unwatchable.

I would more prefer it would buffer more so it doesn't need to do either.

Providers know that networks take dumps.

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