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BT and Youtube problem

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  • 17-04-2009 5:12pm
    #1
    Uthur
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭


    hey folks. for a while now i've had this problem where thumbnails for videos
    don't appear sometimes on youtube. it happens on all browsers i've tried
    but is intermittent.

    i'm on BT's 7.6Mbit/s package

    is anyone else having this problem? is it a YT thing or a BT thing or
    something else?

    thanks :o


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    #2
    Uthur
    Registered Users Posts: 414 ✭✭Uthur


    ok i think i fixed this one (i hope).

    i may be about to speak fluent b0LL1x so caveat emptor! :D

    this seems to be a very specific problem with some older belkin routers.

    youtube thumbnail images come from a range of servers *.ytimg.com

    when you go to some YT pages, *many* http requests are made to these servers.

    firefox by default allows 30 simultaneous http requests - this is too many
    for some of these routers under certain conditions.

    eventually, the router will gag on this and see it as a syn flood attack! :rolleyes:

    you can get around it in firefox by going to about:config and changing the
    network.http.max-connections to about 10

    not sure how to do this in other browsers...


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