First of all, L3 doesn't actually provide Netflix content, I don't think, so your video stream is unaffected entirely by L3's agreements with any ISP.
Second of all, you have no SLA with your ISP, so your quality of service is, "best effort". If you want an SLA, you have to pay, otherwise you're going to get the best that the ISP can give you, which means some degraded performance. That's what you've paid for. If you want better, pay more money.
Third of all, you really should read the submitted article. It's very clear you haven't. When you do, you'll find that L3 is the only backbone provider not playing ball, and the other backbone providers are paying, which means that there actually are nicely upgraded connections (I don't know about "plenty of bandwidth to spare"), paid for by the network backbone providers.
When you read the article, you'll be much better informed on this topic. I do recommend also reading L3's blog post. There's some good info there, and it provides all the "sourcing" you've asked for.
I've read both the blog post and the linked article. Can you provide specific quotes for the claims? Because the only thing that came close which I saw in either the post or the link was a graph of a different connection which isn't fully saturated, but has very little head room, certainly not enough to handle the spillage that L3 is dealing with. There's a mention of capacity upgrades in the works for that connection, but no specific numbers; it's not clear that the upgraded connection will be large enough to take on the lost packets from L3. And I didn't see anything in there about L3 pushing other providers out of the way.
So like I said; can you provide sources for those claims? Because you also thought the bakery analogy was a good idea, so I'd like to read your primary sources instead of trying to explain myself to you further.
> When you do, you'll find that L3 is the only backbone provider not playing ball
Where does the article say that? It says Level3 is having peering problems, but I don't see anywhere that it says Level3 is the only transit provider having peering problems.
Second of all, you have no SLA with your ISP, so your quality of service is, "best effort". If you want an SLA, you have to pay, otherwise you're going to get the best that the ISP can give you, which means some degraded performance. That's what you've paid for. If you want better, pay more money.
Third of all, you really should read the submitted article. It's very clear you haven't. When you do, you'll find that L3 is the only backbone provider not playing ball, and the other backbone providers are paying, which means that there actually are nicely upgraded connections (I don't know about "plenty of bandwidth to spare"), paid for by the network backbone providers.
When you read the article, you'll be much better informed on this topic. I do recommend also reading L3's blog post. There's some good info there, and it provides all the "sourcing" you've asked for.