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by PeterisP 4225 days ago
The article lists the reason for the increase but stops short of putting 2+2 together.

The #1 source of upstream traffic - Bittorrent - has significantly decreased their peak-hour upstream (shifting it to other hours) as described in the article. This rather obviously means that you can go from 7.7% to 9.5% share without any significant changes to Netflix as such, simply because the total peak-hour upstream rate is now slightly lower.