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markh14

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#62601 10-Jun-2010 14:33

I'm on telecom broadband. Load YouTube and some thumbnails load straight away and some take 20 seconds to load. i2.ytimg.com seems to be what is still loading. Anyone else having these problems?

Anbo

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#340247 10-Jun-2010 15:41

Yer im getting the same problems, the youtube site is always EXTREMELY slow for me, vids most the time load fast enough to properly stream, even though my line is more than capable to do so, 1mb/s download speed. 3/10 videos i probably have to wait a minute or two to load before i can watch, telecom doesn't seem to be very good with youtube

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#340248 10-Jun-2010 15:42

What DNS are you folks using? The Xtra DNS or third party?

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Anbo

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#340250 10-Jun-2010 15:47

Xtra dns, which seems to be extremely slow, dont really know how to change it, if its possible. Do i change it in the modem or in my computers network settings?

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#340298 10-Jun-2010 16:54

Anbo: Yer im getting the same problems, the youtube site is always EXTREMELY slow for me, vids most the time load fast enough to properly stream, even though my line is more than capable to do so, 1mb/s download speed. 3/10 videos i probably have to wait a minute or two to load before i can watch, telecom doesn't seem to be very good with youtube

are you on bigtime?
I found youtube to be very painful on bigtime - much as you describe - but as soon as a switched to a different plan the difference was night and day. I haven't had to wait for a youtube vid to buffer even once since then.

Anbo

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#340317 10-Jun-2010 17:21

The 10gb plan, telecom is screwing me around atm, capping my upload, speed getting slower and slower, fs/fs my a** haha. Apparently they can't find anything wrong. Hopefully it will get sorted out, look forward to when I can load a YouTube video 5x faster than it plays again! Haha

markh14

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#340347 10-Jun-2010 18:28

freitasm: What DNS are you folks using? The Xtra DNS or third party?

i'm on telecom adventure plan. i'm using xtra dns. someone from telecom must be watching this thread because it seems to be fixed now. i'll try again in 24 hours.

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#340584 11-Jun-2010 12:09

Anbo: Xtra dns, which seems to be extremely slow, dont really know how to change it, if its possible. Do i change it in the modem or in my computers network settings?

Anbo i would be interested to here what you think 'extremely slow' is.
If you could PM me the details of the DNS servers you are using and some examples of slow responses i can look into it and see if there is an issue we are not aware of.

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markh14

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#340619 11-Jun-2010 13:32

problem is back but at least it loads within 5 seconds now.

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#340646 11-Jun-2010 15:10

I have noticed this too. It is not consistant, but a lot of sites that load slowly, are usually due to x.ytimg.com. This is based solely on observation, and watching the status bar in Firefox. At worst, it can add 10seconds to a pages load time.