Netflix Throttling

[Alex]

I go through 15-20 Netflix movies a month and still experience a two-day turn around (and this includes when I drop a disc off at the post office after it closes; say on a Monday I still usually have the next disc on Wednesday). I'm still on the 4-at-a-time plan that was the only one available when I signed up.

To the best of my recollection I've never not had the next disc go out on the same day the previous one arrived. I'm not saying Netflix doesn't throttle just that it doesn't seem to affect me. It's probably because I almost never use Netflix for new-release mass-market movies (but the expenses are the same regardless of what movies I rent).

I'm on the fence about whether it is a bad thing or not but I understand why they do it. And people have been complaining about it since almost the beginning. I remember back shortly after I signed up a guy who had a Web site dedicated to tracking the variations in shipping time depending on how many movies he'd rented in the last month.