speed_phreak
Premium
join:2006-03-31
Culver, OR
 ·Packet8
 ·Qwest.net
| slow youtube?
hi all,
so i don't go to youtube a lot, but the past few days i can barely load the homepage much less a video. i did some research and thought maybe it was opendns. then i tried qwest dns servers and the issue remains. is anyone else having a helluva time with youtube?
makes me think it is a qwest networking issue now...
tia |
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Bronnster
join:2007-12-05
Hazelton, ID
·Qwest.net
1 edit | I did some looking into slow you tube and Hulu poor performance too. Come to find out that Adobe flash has a problem with the new version 10. It is a massive RAM hog. Check some of the forums out on the topic. What I did outside of comp cleaning and defragging was to also reduce the quality settings of the flash player on hulu by right clicking the players screen and setting it to 'low'. For You tube, I right clicked the screen and unchecked the hardware accelerator. This helped.
Many posters on the forum (Adobe and elsewhere) are frustrated with the amount of ram the new version flash player uses now. I hope Adobe gets that situation squared away soon. Especially with viewing in full screen. hope this gives you some help. Good luck.
»answers.yahoo.com/question/index···0AAaUCtn
BTW, a program from IObit called 'GameBooster' really helped with increasing performance too for me. Not sure if that might be something you'd like to try as well.  |
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MMonier
@qwest.net | reply to speed_phreak
Yes, I am having problems connecting to YouTube at various times during the day. This has been happening over the last few days. When I am able to connect, for the most part the videos load fine. This has been happening only with YouTube. |
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speed_phreak
Premium
join:2006-03-31
Culver, OR
·Packet8
·Qwest.net
| it does seem like qwest and youtube are having some network issues between themselves. when i use qwest dns i get slowness, but videos will load fine once they start loading...
when using opendns the youtube homepage can be a challenge to get, but loading a video is pretty much a no go... seems like opendns compounds the problem many times over... |
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CopperMonkey
join:2007-12-18
united state
| reply to speed_phreak
I've also been having this issue. Most of the time I can get the player to load, but the video won't load. Or when it does load, it only loads a few seconds of the video and stops. This ONLY happens on YouTube, every other video site is as snappy as ever. |
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speed_phreak
Premium
join:2006-03-31
Culver, OR
·Packet8
·Qwest.net
| sounds like i am not the only one then...
coppermonkey: are you by chance using opendns too? or just using qwest's dns servers (i.e. haven't made any changes to your dns configuration. you'd know if you did  ) |
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MMonier
@qwest.net | As of Friday, I am no longer having this problem. Nothing was changed on my end. |
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CopperMonkey
join:2007-12-18
united state
2 edits | reply to speed_phreak
Yes, I kept using OpenDNS because I wasn't sure if Qwest was aware of the issue or had fixed it. I'll change back to Qwest's DNS servers and see if I still have issues.
EDIT: somehow my system's DNS was set to my router, not OpenDNS, not sure how that happened... forcing it to Qwest seems to have alleviated the YouTube issue. I'll see if I still have problems with OpenDNS. |
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The WeaseL
Premium
join:2001-12-03
Minnesota
| reply to speed_phreak
I've been having the same issue. Currently the pages of youtube appear to load fine but the videos are basically unplayable. At first I thought it was youtube but when I took my laptop into work today I tried youtube to compare and it was snappy as ever (at work they use Charter). So it must be something with Qwest - Youtube.
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dethl
join:2009-05-04
Las Cruces, NM
1 edit | reply to speed_phreak
I've been having the same YouTube problems with Qwest - Hulu and other websites are fine but YouTube videos either load very slowly or not at all.
I'm currently on the phone with Qwest to see what is going on.
EDIT: Qwest DNS settings have done nothing to help (had OpenDNS settings before). |
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dethl
join:2009-05-04
Las Cruces, NM
| said by dethl  :I've been having the same YouTube problems with Qwest - Hulu and other websites are fine but YouTube videos either load very slowly or not at all. I'm currently on the phone with Qwest to see what is going on. EDIT: Qwest DNS settings have done nothing to help (had OpenDNS settings before). Ok. Off the phone - they are claiming that nothing is being blocked on their end and that it must be my computer or YouTube's fault. Never mind that Youtubeproxy.org works just fine on my computer through Qwest. Ughhhhh. I don't want to have to switch to Comcast. |
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no_one
@maricopa.edu | reply to speed_phreak
Routing or dns issues.
Do a trace route if you can. |
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MMonier
@qwest.net | reply to speed_phreak
I had this problem for a few days until Friday. I get Qwest through a WiFi antenna; I have no router, nothing to mess with on my end. Since the problem cleared up "on its own," I have to think Qwest fixed something on their end. |
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no_one
@QWEST.NET | reply to speed_phreak
Check some other provider forums. Youtube being slow is not Qwest unique. |
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MMonier
@qwest.net
| I just came from 7 years with HughesNet. Right when I switch to Qwest, I have this problem. That's unique enough for me.
(Note: I'm not complaining, just stating a fact. After 7 years with DirecWay/Hughes, believe me, I have nothing to complain about with Qwest.) |
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Todd_Madson_Mpls
@coldbankmn.com
|  reply to speed_phreak
It's not just a ram hog, Flash is a CPU hog too.
I've found a verifiable BUG with certain models of Macintosh
computers that simply will not play high-def flash video (it
is what youtube uses to push video).
See:
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BFVTh4gYfo
Click on HD to see if your pc can play it.
Some PCs can play it, even fast dual/quad core machines
sometimes run into jerkiness ono these videos.
The PowerMac G5 computers will not play this in any
browser in HD no matter how fast (dual 2.5 ghz processors? check. 7+ gigs of ram? check.
Even the quad processor G5s can't play it but the original MPEG-4 video plays fine.
Anyway, yes. Flash. Not so efficient. |
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MMonier
@qwest.net | My PC plays it fine. In my case, playing videos was never the problem, it was connecting to YouTube in the first place (as if blocked). And before anyone fires off a response about blocking, no, I am not saying I was blocked. |
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unnameduser
@qwest.net
| reply to speed_phreak
I wrote a letter to Consumerist that Consumerist posted. See that post here:
»consumerist.com/5239815/qwest-sa···-its-not
I assert that it is not a "network problem" but that QWest is intentionally rate limiting material from YouTube, TED and other streaming sites.
I make this assertion based on the evidence that the download of YouTube etc is reduced to less that 10Kbs when going directly to YouTube, but it runs at my full rated speed of 1.5Mbs when I use an external proxy.
Look up a few of the open proxys using search arguments like "glype proxy". There are thousands of these things in use by people inside filtered firewalls who want access to the censored sites.
In any case, from my point of view, this is not a network problem, this is hostile action.
I was contacted by a very professional "smoother-over-er" person at QWest intergalactic headquarters. She tried her best to convince me that it was a problem. Yet, all the evidence I see is that the rate limiting is intentional. ... Of course, I could be wrong.
JMHO, YMMV |
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dynodb
Premium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
| said by unnameduser :I wrote a letter to Consumerist that Consumerist posted. See that post here: » consumerist.com/5239815/qwest-sa···-its-notI assert that it is not a "network problem" but that QWest is intentionally rate limiting material from YouTube, TED and other streaming sites. I make this assertion based on the evidence that the download of YouTube etc is reduced to less that 10Kbs when going directly to YouTube, but it runs at my full rated speed of 1.5Mbs when I use an external proxy. One little problem- the "evidence" you base your assertion on demonstrates approximately nothing. By going through a proxy, you're taking a different route to get to the site. |
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no_one
@QWEST.NET | reply to speed_phreak
Do a search other providers are having a problem with Youtube. Every provider must just hate them.  |
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