I live in Denver, Colorado. It looks like Hulu has servers located in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, right on the Centurylink network. Actually, they&#x27;re Akamai servers, but still. Hulu has servers right next to a VPS in Los Angeles I have access to. Google appears to do the same, without Akamai. Your anti-congestion argument fails. It appears that large content providers co-locate servers on lots of networks.<p>So apparently Verizon&#x27;s bytes <i>are</i> slippery or smaller than other people&#x27;s bytes. Maybe they use smaller bits or something?