[bsoft16385]

Modern deep packet identification gear looks at packet size and pacing to distinguish video traffic patterns. It is possible to fool these systems, but it is not trivial.

[Waterluvian]

Any reason fast.com couldn’t stream a video as the test content?

[nippoo]

Yes, this is exactly what it does, and it's a very clever trick by Netflix to discourage their traffic from being throttled!

[pests]

I think it does pull a real video, I'm not sure its pulled in the same way the actual Netflix video player would do it.

[tuetuopay]

you wouldn't pull at gigabits/s bandwidth when casually watching netflix