Playing YouTube on TelstraClear cable: slow?

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mattbush

396 posts

Ultimate Geek

Topic # 101378 30-Apr-2012 20:39
kapiti cable here finding watching youtube impossible these last few days....anyone else? and yes I do have correct DNS.

damianh

30 posts

Geek

Reply # 617643 30-Apr-2012 20:58
Yes same here. Using Clear DNS servers. Once they start playing all ok, but can take up to two minutes before they start :(

amanzi

625 posts

Ultimate Geek

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Reply # 617645 30-Apr-2012 21:00
Same here. I tried using different DNS servers and YouTube performance dramatically increased. But unless you have the correct TCL DNS servers, Akamai and other content delivery networks don't work. Stuart Maxwell Choice Mobile (2degrees Authorised Dealer) Choice Technology (Managed IT Services)

AndrewTarr

22 posts

Geek

Reply # 617663 30-Apr-2012 21:27
Same here except I'm on ADSL in Tauranga. Normally I get a speedtest of 10 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up. In reality downloading (if it's good), I get around 1.5 Mbps. For the last few days it's been awful. Barely 200 Kbps max. Lots of pages won't load without multiple refreshing. DNS Settings are correct and I checked all my equipment. Weird thing is, that everything seems to come right around 10:30pm. After that it's all full speed again. Very frustrating. I've been hopeful that it was just a fault and TC would sort it out, however I'll be ringing tomorrow if it's still this bad. Youtube is unworkable...

DoomlordVekk

111 posts

Master Geek

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Reply # 617755 1-May-2012 00:30
Depending on what you're watching, a lot of youtube seems to be being fed from Sydney right now. Seems quite odd but then Google don't tell us how they deliver service, one way, any way or no way. :( traceroute www.youtube.com traceroute: Warning: www.youtube.com has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.99 traceroute to youtube-ui.l.google.com (74.125.237.99), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 vektor_rtr (192.168.0.1) 1.676 ms 0.903 ms 0.868 ms 2 * * * 3 lo0.internet.ivpn.pe25.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.124) 12.176 ms 11.894 ms 12.608 ms 4 ie2-g-0-0-0.telstraclear.net (203.98.50.2) 20.112 ms 27.669 ms 22.317 ms 5 ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net (203.98.50.251) 22.435 ms 21.404 ms 22.129 ms 6 203.167.233.10 (203.167.233.10) 24.109 ms 26.015 ms 23.049 ms 7 i-0-0-4-0.sydo-core02.bx.reach.com (202.84.142.153) 52.276 ms 49.721 ms 49.805 ms 8 tengige0-1-0-12.oxf-gw1.sydney.telstra.net (203.50.13.169) 57.315 ms 56.580 ms 60.003 ms 9 bundle-ether1.ken-core4.sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.5) 54.621 ms 49.366 ms 70.983 ms 10 bundle-ether1.ken39.sydney.telstra.net (203.50.6.146) 54.995 ms 56.121 ms 48.262 ms 11 72.14.198.54 (72.14.198.54) 45.739 ms 53.399 ms 48.309 ms 12 66.249.95.224 (66.249.95.224) 49.057 ms 46.385 ms 47.797 ms 13 72.14.237.135 (72.14.237.135) 55.447 ms 46.319 ms 61.731 ms 14 syd01s12-in-f3.1e100.net (74.125.237.99) 54.543 ms 53.796 ms 50.549 ms "Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong." Donald Porter – British Airways The views expressed here are my own and are not reflective of other organisms or organisations.