Me and the other half have been having trouble with World of Warcraft off the American Servers, been some significant lag in the past few days which is very unusual. Even at the worst of the cable congestion it would never lag out.
After you said that I was hoping something may have been fixed as our internet/tv has constantly been DCing tonight. But after checking on overwatch and a couple other things I still get this unstable connection.
Time to spend hours on the phone tomorrow :/
(if the video didnt work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTaHP7fk5QI)
We've been having lots of issues watching many videos on YouTube as of late. It can take 3+ minutes for videos to finally start playing, and even then they generally only start playing at 360p or some other silly low resolution. Every single time it seems to get caught up on something at *.pppoe.ihug.co.nz.
One stream in particular was at r6.sn-8vq54voxo1-53az.googlevideo.com. I couldn't ping that server for minutes on end; however, as soon as I was able to start pinging it, video playback also started. It seems like things are keeling over entirely for minutes on end. Incredibly frustrating.
trib:
In my case, I can get a better download speed from using a free wifi in Wellington as compared to my cable at home.
I hear you there. I often get better performance with a spotty 3G connection than I do on cable. :(
Still continuing to have issues on YouTube. Yet again, it seems to connect to connect to something cached on Vodafone's servers, but the server is completely inaccessible for an extended period of time. Here's an example showing what happens when I try to ping it, until it eventually and seemingly randomly starts "working":
Pinging r5.sn-8vq54voxo1-53az.googlevideo.com [203.118.143.208] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Reply from 203.118.143.208: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=58 Reply from 203.118.143.208: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=58
Ping statistics for 203.118.143.208: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 28ms, Average = 23ms
I'm very fortunate that it started working when it did, because I forgot the -t flag and could have simply had everything time out. :P
Either way, this prolonged issue is beyond frustrating. Please, Vodafone, get this caching sorted out. :(
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