You're paying for sending traffic one-way. Peering agreements are free when both...

AnthonyMouse · on April 25, 2014

Peering agreements are free when no money changes hands. Your argument simplifies to "because Comcast said so."

Touche · on April 25, 2014

And free peering agreements (called settlement-free agreements) only happen when the transit is more or less balanced.

smileysteve · on April 25, 2014

So, if Netflix just increases data that viewers are sending it, it's okay?

So if Netflix adds

setInterval('EqualizeBandwidth',1000/24) function EqualizeBandwidth(){ $.post('netflix.com/dosbox', {data:randomLongStringEqualtoVideoFrame+1}); }

Then comcast will pay them. (And most subscribers will be fine if they only watch < 31 movies a month given an 8gb movie.)

But bonus if netflix causes every one of their customers to hit the 250gb cap and therefore hate comcast. Any politician that has family trying to watch netflix would complain of overages then and shut comcast out.