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

[JTsyo]

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.

Wouldn't they load share between all the CDNs?

 

[DrunkenSano]

Will try when I get home from work today. (Optimum Online)

 

[drebo]

I had this issue with uVerse for a while. It was annoying.

 

[blackangst1]

Marked for later

 

[fatpat268]

Didn't do a thing for me. Youtube is still slow as hell.

 

[vshah]

im on TWC and this didnt really do anything for me so i turned it off. also it broke something else

what did it break?

 

[IceBergSLiM]

<obvious question> is there an equivalent for redtube? </obvious question>

 

[bigrash]

Thanks will have to try this.

 

[clamum]

dont notice any difference (comcast)

Well, shat. Comcast is what I have as well but I guess I'll give it a try.

Actually, my Internet has been dying recently. Went to Comcast and got a new modem after it was suggested by customer service, but that hasn't totally fixed the problem as sometimes still after work I'll turn on my computer and have no Internet, whether I go through my router or directly through their modem. Usually turning off the computer, and then modem for a few minutes, and restarting solves it but something must be up.

 

[Wyndru]

Well, shat. Comcast is what I have as well but I guess I'll give it a try.

Actually, my Internet has been dying recently. Went to Comcast and got a new modem after it was suggested by customer service, but that hasn't totally fixed the problem as sometimes still after work I'll turn on my computer and have no Internet, whether I go through my router or directly through their modem. Usually turning off the computer, and then modem for a few minutes, and restarting solves it but something must be up.

Try accessing your modem admin page (usually 192.168.100.1) and check your signal power with the info from the page below.

http://www.dslreports.com/faq/16085

Maybe your line is bad somewhere.

 

[jimbob200521]

Marked for later.

 

[Thebobo]

Later marked home I get

 

[Anubis]

what did it break?

certian parts of other sites just stopped loading. AVS being one of them it also didnt do anything for my youtube speed

it appeared to for the first vid i watched but after that, it was back to its craptastic self

 

[WackyDan]

Does this require you to be using the Windows Firewall to fix?

 

[Phoenix86]

Hmm, didn't seem to affect load times for me, I'm on AT&T U-verse. I'll have to poke around with it later.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow I can confirm this really did help me. I'm at home and I just watched a full 6 minute video and I did not even need to let it buffer. I'll have to try this in xbmc as well, perhaps I'll finally be able to sit on the couch and surf youtube now. Before I could not as the videos would be all choppy, and when you pause it in xbmc it does not seem to buffer like it does in a browser.

 

[Baked]

Confirmed working for verizon fios. Video loads fully upon play instead of bits and pieces like before.

 

[DrunkenSano]

Noooo, the site got taken off.

 

[zinfamous]

links in OP are down. anyone have another?



many happy blessings

 

[SparkyJJO]

Well it worked great when I tested it last night, but now it is slow again

 

[Phokus]

links in OP are down. anyone have another?



many happy blessings

Cached here:

https://webcache.googleusercontent....e/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ee&client=firefox-a

 

[Phoenix86]

Noooo, the site got taken off.

I still had the page open, note: I'm just quoting what was there.

1. Click the Start button, type “cmd”, and right click the icon to ‘Run As Administrator’ (Screenshot 1)
2. You will likely see a UAC prompt, hit “Yes” (Screenshot 2)
3. The command prompt window will open, this is where you will type in the commands to set your firewall rules (Screenshot 3)
4. 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"


Did this trick work for you? Let me know in the comments below, Windows users!

 

[bbhaag]

Worked for me. Youtube loads a lot faster now. If only there was something like this for Netflix.
My ISP is the crap known as Frontier Communications.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Didn't seem to do anything for me, Comcast.

 

[ViRGE]

Wouldn't they load share between all the CDNs?

In theory, sure. But not every video is on every CDN, and it doesn't mean they have enough CDNs. Furthermore if the CDN serving your ISP is overloaded, there's no guarantee they're going to route you to another, farther away source.