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Throttling Youtube

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  • 14-01-2007 10:20am
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    donutface
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭


    I asked a few of my friends outside of Ireland and they said youtube is fast for them, but lately it seems to be buffering a lot for me lately (I'm with Esat BT, Cork Area), anyone else have the same experience, how about the irish broadband guys?


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Try a trace route and also try downloading from ftp.heanet.ie or similar to see if it is your connection or international routing for BT in Cork.


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    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    it does that for me too slightly but I assumed that was when it was overloaded with users etc. Youtube is a popular site remember.

    I'm with BT in Lucan.


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    donutface
    Registered Users Posts: 461 ✭✭donutface


    its definitely not my connection, i can download at full capacity just fine, it just seems youtube buffers a lot more than usual lately and my friends in england says it runs just fine


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    JNive
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭JNive


    perhaps they have lower capacity on certain upstream links which are perhaps being maxed out, which happens to be the link that the traffic takes to you. to check this out, you would need to be able to do a tracert from their AS to your AS


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    DemonOfTheFall
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    Seems that some ISPs have pretty crap peering with whatever backbones YouTube is on. NTL is fairly crap with it, Eircom seems fine. Trinity's connectivity with Youtube doesn't seem the best either, which is extra weird since they're on a few hundrd Mb/s with HEAnet


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