It takes a lot of work to make Comcast look good but Verizon seems to have pulled off the trick. Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin has done some nice work trying to figure out how Netflix’s performance on Verizon’s network has actually gotten worse even though the two companies reached a peering agreement earlier this year. It basically boils down to this: Comcast was completely prepared to upgrade its interconnectivity infrastructure after signing its deal with Netflix while Verizon was not. Brodkin’s sources say that although Comcast and Netflix formally signed their new peering agreement in February this year, the two companies’ engineering teams had been working together for the past four months to iron out technical details about the best
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