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    Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    Is anyone else experiencing extremely slow Youtube video buffering? I'm on VM and it varies between videos but some are loading at <200k but none seem to be loading at pretty much max 60Mb of my connection like they were a week or two back.

    Over on VM forums, some seem to be saying it's to do with VM's caching servers but I'm not convinced; the particularly slow ones seem to be served by US IP addresses, for example 64.15.115.19 but the last octet varies.

    I'm wondering if this is affecting other ISPs too, as it could be somehow related to hurricane Sandy; lots of transatlantic cables terminate in NY and there are lots of datacentres there. I still need to do a bit more research to see if its affecting any US sites besides Youtube.

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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    IMHO VM has always been rubbish for youtube.
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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    It's always been fine for me, as I said, a week or two ago videos would generally max out my connection.

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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    fine for me too - but then, why wouldn't it be? these kind of issues, more are less, are a problem between you and your ISP, not the end server

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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    you tube was unusable all weekend but fine agina Monday morning. Network tests showed congestion on VM infrastrucure so for me at least Vm sucks for youtube
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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    Quote Originally Posted by meems View Post
    fine for me too - but then, why wouldn't it be? these kind of issues, more are less, are a problem between you and your ISP, not the end server
    Are you on VM?
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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    Yes, occasionally I see the comments.

    Seriously though, it's been pretty poor this year on Virgin. Never noticed anything last year, but this year it has been woefully unreliable. And this is whilst the rest of the internet had been fine. I'd put it down to youtube or my PC settings or something and never looked into it further, but it could be ISP related I guess.

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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    Quote Originally Posted by blueball View Post
    Are you on VM?
    No - sorry, I didn't think that was relevant.

    My point was simply that Youtube is invariably fine for me any day or time that I ever try to access it (work, home, and my weekday work 'digs') - 3 very different internet connections and providers. Were it to misbehave though, I would look from my computer to my ISP long before I suspected the website itself.

    I haven't used Virgin for about 4 years now (it was my dialup provider, and then my first broadband provider for a couple of years) - I left them because, in my area, the service was so over loaded, it was basically unusable crap

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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    It's completely relevant as I was trying to figure out where the problem may lie, as I said in the OP. As I also said, Youtube usually saturates my 60Mb connection, which is why the sudden drop to near-unusable got my attention.

    On the contrary, sudden problems like this are often traced back to the website host; ISP network problems usually affect more than just one site.

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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    For sure, if your web experience is great aside of one site, that would appear to point the fingers at something between you and the site. General internet slowdown is more likely to become apparent when performing high bandwidth tasks such as watching youtube videos

    http://social.downornot.com/9839/130753/YouTube

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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    It's flagged as having performance issues on and before 4th November, the date of my OP, but it doesn't elaborate on what the issues were exactly.

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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    I have a ticket outstanding with VM for network congestion in my area. You can have a look at my speedtests over the last year here

    In this time I've had 3 different routers (1 CM and 2 superhubs) to try and fix the problems but it wasn't the hubs (although it did fix the problem of the hub locking up every 2 weeks).

    Allegedly, the network congestion is due to be fixed for me on 5 Dec this year. We shall see.
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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    Well there we go, friday night and VM cannot stream 720p youtube over a 50Mb connection. What a surprise!!!!
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    Re: Anyone having problems with Youtube?

    Doesn't have to be a Friday night for YouTube to struggle down here, even this morning I had to wait around 20 minutes for a couple of 10 minute videos to buffer in 720p. Just been upgraded to 100Mbps too!

    Have you guys noticed issues with iPlayer as well?
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