Holy crap, there's a command line you can do in windows to make Youtube FLY

[Phokus]

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1axwab/you_tube_becoming_a_big_pos_load_times_are/c91qw0l

http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/how-to-stop-youtube-sucking-windows-guide/

The guy mentions TWC throttling, but some users said this works for verizon FIOS too... just tried with my optimum online connection and that works too! I just tried some 1080p videos on youtube... the dark night trailer is 2 minutes 30 seconds long and it fully loaded in like 15 seconds for me. Normally, when i do 1080p, i run the risk of buffering.

Edit: website is down but it's cached here https://webcache.googleusercontent....e/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ee&client=firefox-a

Edit 2: just in case that goes down too

Enough talking. Here’s what you need to do:

Click the Start button, type “cmd”, and right click the icon to ‘Run As Administrator’ (Screenshot 1)
You will likely see a UAC prompt, hit “Yes” (Screenshot 2)
The command prompt window will open, this is where you will type in the commands to set your firewall rules (Screenshot 3)
Enter the following command and hit Enter. If it works, you should see a big “OK”.

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="MITCHRIBARYTUBE" dir=in action=block remoteip=173.194.55.0/24,206.111.0.0/16 enable=yes

Rules can be easily removed too. Just get back into the command prompt in the same way and run this command, hit Enter again:

netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name="MITCHRIBARYTUBE"

 

[pcslookout]

Repost already know.

 

[Fenixgoon]

confirmed. thanks!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Interesting, but that's only if you are on that ISP?

 

[Phokus]

Interesting, but that's only if you are on that ISP?

No, it seems to work for all ISPs

 

[Baked]

Tagged. Will try tonight when I get home tonight. I have Verizon FiOS at home.

 

[vshah]

damn. youtube now maxes out my 150mbps down.

 

[KlokWyze]

cool. thanks!

 

[T9D]

Didn't do anything on Charter.

 

[Dominato3r]

Anyone got a large video to test this out on?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Anyone got a large video to test this out on?

i used the latest ST: Into Darkness trailer. normally i need to buffer, but i didn't have any issues streaming.

 

[skulkingghost]

nice! Wish there was a dd-wrt router trick for this to do the same for all connected devices.

 

[Lifted]

THAAAAAAAAAAAAANK YOOOOOOOU!!!!!!

Youtube has been freezing every 30 seconds - 2 minutes for me for the past few weeks or more. It would just stop loading the video. I'd have to jump back and forth to get it start playing again.

I haven't dont any research on these ranges yet, but I'm guessing they're the peering networks TWC has with Google. If that's the case, Time Warner can go fuck themselves because they are obviously throttling networks that were supposedly created to improve performance and lower their own overhead with regards to youtube traffic. Now they've just gone and fucked themselves because all of this traffic will be going over $$$ circuits. Assholes.

Now I have to find a script that will constantly load 1080p youtube videos 24/7. TWC can suck it.

 

[Phokus]

nice! Wish there was a dd-wrt router trick for this to do the same for all connected devices.

Check in the reddit thread, there is... you just have to block that IP

 

[SparkyJJO]

Wow, that does work. I have 15Mb roadrunner and sometimes Youtube works great but usually buffers a lot. Figured it was on Youtube's end. Guess not! Stupid throttling of the connection I am paying for - too much, really, given they pull this crap.

Going to see about just putting it in my router so it is blocked no matter what I use.

 

[Slew Foot]

dont notice any difference (comcast)

 

[Red Squirrel]

Anyone know how to block IPs in pfsense? I put an outgoing deny rule on the LAN interface but for some reason traffic is still going through to that IP. It's probably something stupid I'm missing. I also originally had it on the WAN but I think the LAN ruleset is what really gets checked for LAN traffic.

 

[Red Squirrel]

NM I got it! I was only blocking TCP, and I was testing with ping. Dumbass moment.

It seems to work, I actually watched a 25 second video over my VPN (I'm at work now). I can't wait to test this from home.

This is awesome!

So from a technical standpoint, what exactly is going on here that is making youtube slow, and that by blocking this range, makes it faster? I'm guessing it's some kind of route the data takes and if you can't access it it fails over to another method, but why would they choose the slowest route as the default?

 

[Udgnim]

wonder which company or companies use those IP ranges

I added the rule, but if I ever run into any issues, I will have probably forgotten about adding it

 

[Elixer]

So, you block google...

NetRange: 173.194.0.0 - 173.194.255.255
CIDR: 173.194.0.0/16
OriginAS: AS15169
NetName: GOOGLE
NetHandle: NET-173-194-0-0-1
Parent: NET-173-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
RegDate: 2009-08-17
Updated: 2012-02-24
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-173-194-0-0-1

and XO

NetRange: 206.111.0.0 - 206.111.255.255
CIDR: 206.111.0.0/16
OriginAS:
NetName: XOXO-BLK-1
NetHandle: NET-206-111-0-0-1
Parent: NET-206-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
Comment: Please report spam and viruses to abuse@xo.net.
Comment: For better service, direct customers of XO may use
Comment: the web form at http://www.xo.com/contact/care/
Comment: for reverse DNS requests and other customer-specific
Comment: technical issues. Thank you for your cooperation.
RegDate: 1995-08-17
Updated: 2009-05-12
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-206-111-0-0-1

 

[ViRGE]

Wow, that does work. I have 15Mb roadrunner and sometimes Youtube works great but usually buffers a lot. Figured it was on Youtube's end. Guess not!

No, it is on YouTube's end. Time Warner is not throttling anything. The problem is that the CDNs serving Time Warner customers are routinely overloaded because Google has not invested in keeping up with capacity (it's expensive, and YouTube doesn't make money). The only reason this works is that the next group of servers you get thrown to aren't as overloaded as the first. And if everyone did this everything would become just as slow, as everyone would now be on that second set of servers.

Ultimately bypassing CDNs is a bad idea. The real fix is for Google to beef up their CDNs, not play games with which CDN you go to.

 

[CZroe]

Can I possibly get my router to do this for all client devices?

 

[pcslookout]

Can I possibly get my router to do this for all client devices?

Yes. Quite easy to do.

 

[CZroe]

No, it is on YouTube's end. Time Warner is not throttling anything. The problem is that the CDNs serving Time Warner customers are routinely overloaded because Google has not invested in keeping up with capacity (it's expensive, and YouTube doesn't make money). The only reason this works is that the next group of servers you get thrown to aren't as overloaded as the first. And if everyone did this everything would become just as slow, as everyone would now be on that second set of servers.

Ultimately bypassing CDNs is a bad idea. The real fix is for Google to beef up their CDNs, not play games with which CDN you go to.

Are you sure it's entirely that? I have a family member that works for a cable co. The official line to the customers is "we don't do traffic shaping," though he can point at the very box that does it.

 

[ViRGE]

Are you sure it's entirely that? I have a family member that works for a cable co. The official line to the customers is "we don't do traffic shaping," though he can point at the very box that does it.

Yes. If they were doing traffic shaping this trick wouldn't work.