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I 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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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 surfac…
> it turned out that their CDN works by using DNS to direct you to local servers Are these servers' IPs static? Can they be hardcoded in your hosts file?
server=/netflix.com/75.75.75.75
I don't actually know whether this is an anchored regex or what, maybe I'm spuriously using my ISP's dns for foonetflix.combar.info, but I don't really care.
All devices that use DHCP use the router (and thus the custom dnsmasq config) for dns by default. It improved my ability to stream netflix at the time, though I didn't measure it. TomatoUSB has neat-looking graphs, maybe I should run a test.
Edit as to your question:
> Are these servers' IPs static? Can they be hardcoded in your hosts file?
I suspect they use AWS for at least some layer in between you and the bits you want (if not the actual CDN, the server pool that generates the token that you need to get the bits from the CDN), so I don't think there would be a set of IP addresses to hard-code.
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> I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. See, this is the funny part, not the "tubes". His staff sent him an internet? Yeah, I can see why that might take a while to deliver.
I'm pretty sure he meant "email" and misspoke. The overall point that the people regulating things often don't know as much about them as a specialist would, but it seems rude to laugh at a small mistake like that.
Far better to simply say "I've consulted with experts so-and-so, and their conclusion was [reads a quote from expert]"
Worth 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.
Curious. For me the 30-240 seconds long ads YouTube shows are always 1080p (or at very least high quality) and never choppy, yet streaming YouTube content videos at the same resolution often results in terrible buffering issues. Are the crappy ISP (ComCast) cahce servers only caching the non-ad videos? Does YouTube serve these through an AdSense / non-YouTube source that bypasses the cache? There are times it seems t…
The ads are cached because the same ones are shown to so many people. Most videos are served to any particular neighborhood much less frequently than ads, and so are usually not in the edge cache.
Good. 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 surfac…
Anybody else see "Results from your location are not yet available." when you hover over "Your Results"?
Good. 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…
^this. Same with Netflix though for me. Where are you based? I'm in Austin, Tx. Any of the speed tests online will report 30mbps/5mbps, but I'm unable to stream HD on Youtube or Netflix during peak times.
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I'm pretty sure he meant "email" and misspoke. The overall point that the people regulating things often don't know as much about them as a specialist would, but it seems rude to laugh at a small mistake like that.
The point is that he is trying to convince people to regulate the internet. His rhetoric includes nonsense analogies that he doesn't even get straight. It's ridiculous. Far better to simply say "I've consulted with experts so-and-so, and their conclusion was [reads a quote from expert]"