Is it just me or does it feel like telecom is throttling youtube speeds?

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qwerty7

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#99157 13-Mar-2012 22:22

Using youtube sometimes feels like 2.5x dial up?

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#594833 13-Mar-2012 22:24

just u.

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#594834 13-Mar-2012 22:25

Do you haver a cap and by any chance a plan that throttles your speed if you reach the cap?

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#594840 13-Mar-2012 22:37

Yeah just you, 90% of the time i can watch 720p without any buffering.

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#594841 13-Mar-2012 22:43

fine here. 720p buffering decently also

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#594844 13-Mar-2012 22:48

Is this only with YouTube or any other site? Are you using Telecom's own DNS?

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#594849 13-Mar-2012 22:57

i don't mean i have to constantly buffer every video it just seems to get 'stuck' sometimes. Videos seem to buffer only so far ahead of the play bar and sometimes they catch up and have to re-buffer. I remember they use to buffer right across as soon as you clicked on it. Also for whatever reason sometimes when you click on a video they don't buffer at all unless you refresh. So i don't really mean 2.5x dial up (i was just hacked off with the poor performance). Some videos load fine browsing youtube just seems to be a bit laggy and a bit sh.t sometimes.

I am not near my data cap. Yes I am using telecoms dns

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#594868 13-Mar-2012 23:30

works fine for me.

problem with your computer's memory perhaps?

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#594894 14-Mar-2012 03:16

I have seen this a couple of times, what web browser are you using and do you have an adblock addon?

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#594987 14-Mar-2012 10:40

Clear your browsers cache and cookies etc?
Mine used to do that, no idea how i fixed it hahaha

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#596652 17-Mar-2012 23:49

One method that usually works if it becomes stuck with re-buffering is to jump the video forward near the end and wait for it to start playing again and then jump back to where you were.

The video content may be coming from either the enhanced 0-0.preferred.cache.tnz-xxx.vXX.lscache or the standard server which I never see now one which can be slow. You may see this down the bottom left or right of your browser window.

EG: "o-o.preferred.tnz-akl1.v10.lscache1.c.youtube.com"

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#596676 18-Mar-2012 08:38

Youtube videos are stored in different chunks on the google servers.

If the cache you are connecting to doesn't have the chunk available the client will play the video chunk from overseas and the cache will start to download it in the background so its available next time for someone.

So if you are watching videos which are uncommon or random then most likely the parts of the video will actually come from overseas but if you go back to the start it will download the parts of the video from the local cache and be a lot faster.

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#596713 18-Mar-2012 11:40

Along with the above explanation I would also suggest clearing your own browser's cache- every now and then I get this problem, but it extends across all video streaming sites when the browser cache is full..