I'm a netadm for my network (a /16) and "Results for [my] location are not currently available". Any idea how I can alleviate this? I'm curious how we're doing.
Google Video Quality Report
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#52I'm not totally buying this - why is it when I have this extension[1] enabled, YouTube FLIES and works just as I remember it to work back in 2007? [1] - https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter
I haven't used this extension but my guess is that it's defeating the host redirection that ISPs do to point you at their extremely shitty and underprovisioned edge caches. Most ISPs run them to cache popular youtube content and save on out of network bandwidth, however as with most things they are terrible at it and extremely cheap. The solution I've been most happy with is to run all traffic over VPN to an endpoint not under Comcast - keeps everything nice and speedy, albeit with slightly more latency.
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#53Is it me, or is this website subtly paying homage to Sen. Ted Stevens' famous "Series of Tubes" anti-net-neutrality speech.
Yeah, I immediately thought series of tubes.
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#54Good. I swear youtube is throttled by Time Warner Cable for me. I stream Netflix, Hulu, etc and never have problems with them. I can confirm that I'm getting my speeds of 20MBit/s down, and yet almost every video on YouTube buffers. If I use youtube-dl to download the video, I can confirm that my actual connection speed is somewhere around 60KB/s. If I then use youtube-dl on my VPS with the same video, I get somewher…
Are you by any chance using non-TWC DNS servers? I had this same frustrating problem on Comcast, and it turned out that their CDN works by using DNS to direct you to local servers; by using the Google 8.8.8.8 etc I wasn't getting that.
Even still, though, I run into certain Youtube videos that absolutely refuse to ever fully load -- it's always non-popular ones, and it's like they cache miss and just never get surfaced for me to watch the whole way through.
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#55I find it amusing that their big support button[1] ends up at an error page[2], given the bad reputation of Google's consumer customer support.
[1] Rightmost, here: http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/#a_faster_web
[2] https://support.google.com/youtube/checklist/3480866?p=video...
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#56Worth mentioning that Netflix has a similar effort: http://blog.netflix.com/2014/01/new-isp-performance-data-for... http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/
+1 that was useful! Took 20 seconds to see how my local ISP does relative to other providers.
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#57Is it me, or is this website subtly paying homage to Sen. Ted Stevens' famous "Series of Tubes" anti-net-neutrality speech.
Maybe they used that imagery because a series of tubes is an apt metaphor for internet bandwidth.
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#58I find it amusing that their big support button[1] ends up at an error page[2], given the bad reputation of Google's consumer customer support. [1] Rightmost, here: http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/#a_faster_web [2] https://support.google.com/youtube/checklist/3480866?p=video...
This is not an error page for me.
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#59Is it me, or is this website subtly paying homage to Sen. Ted Stevens' famous "Series of Tubes" anti-net-neutrality speech.
People talked about Internet "pipes" for many years, but somehow Stevens was a moron for saying "tubes".
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#60Worth mentioning that Netflix has a similar effort: http://blog.netflix.com/2014/01/new-isp-performance-data-for... http://ispspeedindex.netflix.com/
Great, but I can't see my country (Brazil) in there, even though Netflix operates here.