arietta

I was born and raised in Atlanta, Marietta specifically. It is a wealthy area with some of the best public schools in Georgia.

Marietta, before they got rolled up into Lockheed Martin via mergers, once got in trouble because they submitted a bid wherein they assumed "full-time" would be 43 hours per week and set their time projections accordingly. The government auditors were pissed when they found out.

This would then allow your Netflix viewing to go to a 4U server at a Comcast datacenter or colocation in the area instead of having the entire South East US try to fit through a small pipe at Marietta, GA. Comcast's stubbornness to participate in the OpenConnect project is the reason for slowness, not throttling. Of course it's going to be faster over a VPN because whatever endpoint you're connecting to most likely takes a different AS path to Netflix.

I did a bunch of rather amazing things in the rocket business for martin-marietta, raytheon, applied research associates. once, i walked up to an employee who had been fighting a problem for two weeks, asked him what he was having an issue with, determined it was a variable initialization error, looked at his monitor, pointed to the missing # sign on an 8051 assembler listing and said, "it's right here".