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Youtube been pretty much unusable for anyone else?

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ketchup79 said:
The theory I have read is that some providers (who are also cable TV providers) are intentionally crippling YouTube so that it will not take away from their business.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberth...ions-youtube-fires-shot-across-cable-tvs-bow/

If true, I think I see a lawsuit in the works.
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It's not that. I work for a smaller cable ISP and our top network engineer has spent a lot of time trying to figure out what's going on. His Apple computers seem to do it fine most of the time (my iPhone is usually fine too).
 
Ichinisan said:
It's not that. I work for a smaller cable ISP and our top network engineer has spent a lot of time trying to figure out what's going on. His Apple computers seem to do it fine most of the time (my iPhone is usually fine too).
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Hmm, I wonder what they are doing wrong. I am only a couple hours up 85 and never have an issue (with Charter).
 
ketchup79 said:
Hmm, I wonder what they are doing wrong. I am only a couple hours up 85 and never have an issue (with Charter).
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As far as I can tell, the problem is with YouTube's content delivery network. Sometimes, the 144p video (yes, ridiculously low-def) will freeze and hitch and a 720p video will load fine. Reload and the 720p video might hitch and buffer constantly. Seems random.
 
Ichinisan said:
As far as I can tell, the problem is with YouTube's content delivery network. Sometimes, the 144p video (yes, ridiculously low-def) will freeze and hitch and a 720p video will load fine. Reload and the 720p video might hitch and buffer constantly. Seems random.
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Exactly.

ISPs aren't messing with YouTube. If they were, every video from YouTube would have problems. Instead it's seemingly random, and that's because it's dependent on the CDN server you connect to. YouTube has not been adequately investing in CDN capacity, and as a result there's not enough capacity to go around if too many popular, high bitrate videos end up on the same few servers.

If the ISPs start doing anything underhanded to deprioritize video traffic, you'll know almost immediately. Everything from YouTube to Vimeo to Apple's video trailers would grind to a halt.
 
Guess ive been lucky? Lol. Never seen any issue like that on bell or videotron here. I did however notice some weirdness from a telus connection once. Hmmm....
 
It was completely unusable a few months back, but I used the trick that's been floating around the web that has you block a specific IP range, and it's been working fine.

However, I'm dumb and can't get the rule to stick at my router so I used Windows Firewall to block it. Which means on my desktop it's flawless over my WiFi connection, on my Nexus 4, I don't even bother trying to watch youtube videos anymore it's painfully slow.

Actually, connecting to anything Google related through my Nexus 4 is painfully slow, downloading apps at <100kb/s is frustrating.
 
pcslookout said:
Youtube is working fine for me right now.

Watching a 720p video right now.
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Why don't you make sure to come into every thread about this (sometimes more than once) and brag that you are not affected by it for some reason.

I get it. Your Internet connection is not affected. OK.
 
pcslookout said:
Well you all started the war.
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Cuda1447 said:
Just for the record, I use FIOS. Been having problems for months, been getting worse. I'm highly aggravated by this.
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I have noticed the last 3 days that youtube has been amazingly smooth on FIOS. I wonder if something was done.
 
Nintendesert said:
YouTube got Googled is the problem. Maybe it'll be smoother if you join Google+
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I noticed they seem to be pushing that, it started asking me questions about who i am, trying to make me create a channel, telling me that some features only work after i create a channel. No thanks, I just want a way to save playlists.
 
Triumph said:
I noticed they seem to be pushing that, it started asking me questions about who i am, trying to make me create a channel, telling me that some features only work after i create a channel. No thanks, I just want a way to save playlists.
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That's how the Googles makes their money.

YouTube has been fine for me though I do notice it plays better on mobile than it does on the desktop. Probably because it's accessing the direct streams instead of going through their sucky player.
 
I found this on reddit. It might help some of you out with buffering problems...

YouTube uses "dash playback" now, which buffers the video in segments instead of allowing the whole thing to buffer. Apparently this feature was implemented because it is faster for users with good internet connections. The YouTube Center[2] user script for Greasemonkey/Scriptish can disable this and revert to the old buffering where you can skip to any point in the loaded video without re-downloading. It also seems to let you buffer the entire video.

I've tried it out and it seems to work as advertised, but skipping backwards is iffy. And if it doesn't work, it still has a ton of useful features for YouTube. The developer also suggests enabling auto-buffering, disabling auto-playback and disabling dash playback for those with slow internet connections. Hope it helps for some of you!

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/114002 [2]
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