YouTube is borderline unusable - Time Warner Cable Sucks

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I think youtube just sucks. Seems like the site can't handle the capacity and it just gets worse every day. I've got that fios quantum nonsense and it's still so super slow.
My parents have Comcast, and it sucks on their connection too. My sister up north has optimum and guess what? Youtube sucks on that too.

 

[drquest]

Charter has direct peering with Youtube and I'd be surprised if TWC didn't do the same thing. Try doing some traceroutes and seeing what other providers it might pass through to get to Youtube.

 

[Wyndru]

On FiOS and it sucks for me, every time, every video.

Same here. Everything else is fine, but youtube sucks ass. I even did that placebo windows firewall fix that people on reddit were having nerdgasms over, and it didn't help (not that I thought it would, I was just hoping). I'm assuming blocking that range just caused it to hit another bottleneck at a different router somewhere.

Did you run the Youtube speed check? http://www.youtube.com/my_speed

-KeithP

Nice, that's a useful link, thanks!

FIOS (25/5) -> 8.7 Mbps, I don't know about that...HD streams never work smoothly, EVER, and I think they are supposed to only use about 5-6 Mbps IIRC.

Fucking youtube!



I'm on 25 mbs Fios! Wtf is this shit? That's 1/3rd of the USA average.

Look at this shit! Look at that black line!

Woah, you aren't even near the others. Are your speedtest results shitty too? You might have an issue with your connection to your house, or it's logging you watching all of your videos on a shitty wireless connection?

 

[Jeff7]

There's a thread around here some place, else it was in the news somewhere, but apparently Youtube is going to have paid channels now? Perhaps some of the ISPs are trying to get ahead & make the idea of paying Youtube for various channels as unattractive as possible? "Why would I pay for Youtube when I'm always stuck waiting for it to buffer."

I cross my fingers for what Youtube may have planned. If I could pay just for the content I want, good-bye television package that forces me to purchase 80 channels I don't want in order to get the 3 channels that I do want.

Place your bets....they'll set it up so that instead of paying $50/month for 77 channels you don't want and 3 channels you do, you'll be able to pay just $16.67/month for each channel you do want.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

TWC in Dallas is a giant clusterf*ck

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I hate how cable companies completely control entire areas so you can't even switch to another provider. I was looking for a land line internet and TWC raised their prices for slower speeds from the last time I bought from them. Now they even charge a lease fee for the modem......

 

[Gibsons]

I am having flashbacks to Realplayer.

That's really bad.

 

[Kneedragger]

Wow I thought I was the only one. Haha AT&T DSL and youtube is snail speed...

 

[Acanthus]

Charter has direct peering with Youtube and I'd be surprised if TWC didn't do the same thing. Try doing some traceroutes and seeing what other providers it might pass through to get to Youtube.

TWC peers through XO.

 

[Hacp]

comcast here. Really fast but I was on TWC before and it was SLOW.

 

[Ichinisan]

I hate how cable companies completely control entire areas so you can't even switch to another provider. I was looking for a land line internet and TWC raised their prices for slower speeds from the last time I bought from them. Now they even charge a lease fee for the modem......

It would be crazy if they didn't charge a lease fee for a modem. If you weren't charged previously, consider yourself very lucky.

 

[Ichinisan]

 

[CraigRT]

Youtube is almost always buffer free for me as long as I don't use Chrome.
If I use IE10 it almost never buffers, (done tests with same video)

I use TekSavvy as my ISP.

 

[Anubis]

I hate how cable companies completely control entire areas so you can't even switch to another provider. I was looking for a land line internet and TWC raised their prices for slower speeds from the last time I bought from them. Now they even charge a lease fee for the modem......

not sure where you live but they have charged a lease fee for the modem in my area for lke 10 years

 

[lxskllr]

I bought my own modem so I wouldn't have to lease.

 

[CraigRT]

I bought my own modem so I wouldn't have to lease.

Same here...

 

[Anubis]

yea so did I, because its DOCIS 3 and TWC is stupud i got a free speed increase out of it as well

 

[darkewaffle]

Depends on the video for me. I have Comcast and a lot of the big name videos will load extremely quickly but trying to watch a HQ copy of some video with only a few thousand views can be pretty painful.

Wasn't there some sort of registry/hosts fix floating around here not long ago to improve youtube load times by blocking your access to certain hubs which forces you to be redirected to the 'good'/less busy ones?

 

[dbk]

all over the place.. but i watch from multiple devices.. one right by the router, the other one two floors up

 

[Papagayo]

Bullshit!

I'll try to get a screen capture of the Youtube connection, when I get home.

I guess I'm lucky, but I never really had problems with Youtube at home.

 

[Ichinisan]

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuu-

Clicked a 480p video that's 1m23s long and let it play so it would finish buffering. It has been about 15 minutes later and it's still not finished.

Just ran a speed test without waiting for the buffer to finish. Full-speed 30m connection.

 

[pcslookout]

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuu-

Clicked a 480p video that's 1m23s long and let it play so it would finish buffering. It has been about 15 minutes later and it's still not finished.

Just ran a speed test without waiting for the buffer to finish. Full-speed 30m connection.

What is the video ?

Youtube works fine here.

 

[Papagayo]

 

[yukichigai]

Charter's a cable company and they don't throttle it, I can watch a 40 minute 1080p video and it'll be 100% loaded before I hit the 5 minute mark.

Charter is the number one ranked Cable ISP in the US, probably because they're the only one that doesn't do crap like this.

 

[pcslookout]

Give me any video you all have problems with. I dare you.