[Rant] Youtube has been SUCKING lately..

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CTMustang Premium join:2007-09-10 France	[Rant] Youtube has been SUCKING lately.. Seriously, WTF. I'm on BOOST+ where it gets almost 60mbps down and youtube has been horrible for the past month or two. What are they doing different??? This was never a big problem in the past... I'm trying to watch a damn squirrel get launched off a deck and the thing freezes and locks up right before the launch!!! so frustrating, it's this youtube taken over by google FFS??
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gar187er I do this for a living join:2006-06-24 Dover, DE kudos:4	routing....latency.....server issues.......tracert to youtube.com can help some.... -- I'm better than you!
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dvd536 as Mr. Pink as they come Premium join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ kudos:4	reply to CTMustang said by CTMustang: Seriously, WTF. I'm on BOOST+ where it gets almost 60mbps down and youtube has been horrible for the past month or two. What are they doing different??? This was never a big problem in the past... I'm trying to watch a damn squirrel get launched off a deck and the thing freezes and locks up right before the launch!!! so frustrating, it's this youtube taken over by google FFS?? pause it until it all come in then view or try other dns servers.
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aannoonn @optonline.net	reply to CTMustang said by CTMustang: I'm trying to watch a damn squirrel get launched off a deck and the thing freezes and locks up right before the launch!!! so frustrating, it's this youtube taken over by google FFS?? It's been taken over by the pro-squirrel lobby.
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SandShark Long may you run Premium,MVM join:2000-05-23 Santa Fe, TX kudos:3	reply to CTMustang It only does that in France.
	to forum · permalink · 2012-03-12 06:38:19 ·
M A R S Premium join:2001-06-15 Long Island	reply to CTMustang OOL DNS is the worst
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intok join:2012-03-15	reply to CTMustang Tried blocking the ads and using the html5 version of the site? »www.youtube.com/html5 Firefox WebM video search addon »mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engine···ube+WebM
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BigBlarg join:2008-02-10 Longueuil, QC kudos:1	reply to CTMustang I'm on 15 mbps here and even 1080p videos loads pretty fast. No need to pause it to let it load.
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cowboyro join:2000-10-11 Shelton, CT	reply to CTMustang Has nothing to do with DNS. You're on the site so it was already resolved. Furthermore queries get cached. Not all servers are in the same location. There may be issues with a slow particular server or the path between you and the server.
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TheMG Premium join:2007-09-04 Canada kudos:1	reply to CTMustang I don't know what it is, but with my ISP (TekSavvy), although I can pull 5.8Mbps to several speedtest sites without a problem, I have a hard time pulling more than 500kbps from most YouTube servers. I ran a little experiment in which I extracted the URL to the video itself, replaced the domain name with the resolved IP address into the URL. The reason for resolving the IP address is twofold: 1) Ensure the video stream is coming from the same server. 2) Ensure the stream is not coming from any ISP's YouTube cache server. Then I loaded this URL on two different ISPs, from the same computer (a laptop), no more than 5 minutes apart. The video pulled an average of 500kbps on TekSavvy, and yet it saturated the 15Mbps connection of the other ISP (Telus). I repeated this several times, doing the process in different orders and trying popular as well as very unpopular videos. The result is completely repeatable. The Telus DSL connection ALWAYS streams faster than the TekSavvy DSL connection. The poor performance is fairly consistent from one YouTube server to another. The only server I get decent performance from is a Peer One Networks cache server (TekSavvy gets their internet transit from Peer One in the west). In other words, I've been able to get around the problem by loading up a video, then after a couple seconds refreshing the page, causing the video to be streamed from the Peer One Networks cache server instead of YouTube's servers. What's really puzzling about this is that other video sites such as Vimeo stream at full speed with no problem at all. Even TekSavvy themselves haven't been able to make heads or tails of this problem. Normally I'm pretty good at pinpointing the source of internet-related problems, but this one has me completely stumped.
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Dude111 An Awesome Dude Premium join:2003-08-04 USA kudos:11	reply to CTMustang Flash muct be extremly CPU intensive as most of the vids DO NOT PLAY WELL FOR ME! (Even now @ 240p) Its gotta be flash because if i play 240p stuff WITH VLC it plays fine!! FLASH IS THE WORST WAY TO STREAM VIDEO...
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BigBlarg join:2008-02-10 Longueuil, QC kudos:1 Reviews: ·ELECTRONICBOX	reply to cowboyro Re: [Rant] Youtube has been SUCKING lately.. said by cowboyro: Has nothing to do with DNS. You're on the site so it was already resolved. Furthermore queries get cached. Not all servers are in the same location. There may be issues with a slow particular server or the path between you and the server. Actually, it could. I've been told that YouTube have many servers, and depending on the DNS you use, you could get sent to a different server.
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TheMG Premium join:2007-09-04 Canada kudos:1	reply to Dude111 Re: said by Dude111: Flash muct be extremly CPU intensive as most of the vids DO NOT PLAY WELL FOR ME! (Even now @ 240p) Its gotta be flash because if i play 240p stuff WITH VLC it plays fine!! FLASH IS THE WORST WAY TO STREAM VIDEO... Either you're running an insanely slow computer, or there is something terribly wrong. Even my old P3 1.2Ghz laptop can play 360p flash videos smoothly (although it does use 95% CPU). My desktop computer (Core 2 Duo E8400 clocked at 3.8GHz) registers only 15% CPU usage when playing a 1080p YouTube flash video. My newer laptop can also handle 1080p flash without a problem, though due to its slower CPU (2.26GHz Core 2 Duo), it peaks at 40% CPU usage. The more recent flash versions enable GPU hardware acceleration which takes a lot of load off the CPU. Still not as efficient as something like VLC or MPC, but far better than flash used to be before they added hardware acceleration.
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dvd536 as Mr. Pink as they come Premium join:2001-04-27 Phoenix, AZ kudos:4	reply to Dude111 said by Dude111: Flash muct be extremly CPU intensive as most of the vids DO NOT PLAY WELL FOR ME! (Even now @ 240p) Its gotta be flash because if i play 240p stuff WITH VLC it plays fine!! FLASH IS THE WORST WAY TO STREAM VIDEO... Whats the latest flash that Windows 98 SE supports?
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Dude111 An Awesome Dude Premium join:2003-08-04 USA kudos:11	reply to CTMustang I think its flash9f is the newest you can run on 98se.. I have 9 but i dunno what letter.. (9.0.16) Is it the size of the OCX file that determines how good playback is though?? (9.0.16 is 2.09 Megs -- 7.0.19 is only 917k)
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intok join:2012-03-15	Eh, if 98SE is all you need switch to ReactOS, it's a good enough replacement for it as most everything that ran on 98SE should run fine on it as well as support newer software versions... Basically it's Windows, but not from Microsoft, and with a nice little repo of Windows compatible F/OSS software to help keep things up to date
	to forum · permalink · 2012-03-23 02:21:00 ·
sivran Opera convert Premium join:2003-09-15 Arlington, TX kudos:1	reply to BigBlarg Re: [Rant] Youtube has been SUCKING lately.. Yes, that is the case. Different DNS will resolve to different servers on youtube's network.
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Dragasoni We're All Mad Here Premium join:2001-12-14 Palm Bay, FL	reply to CTMustang It's your routing to YouTube from whatever you are. Here in central Florida on RR it's terrible and has been this way for years. I have to pause the video and let it buffer. The last month or so, it only buffers 1 minute and then stops buffering until I hit play. I can't tell how many times I just give up on trying to watching something. When I bring my laptop to my parents house in New York, YouTube works fantastic. When I do a tracert to YouTube from home I have several crappy hops with either high ping times or timeouts. From my parents house, the routing is great without much loss and no timeouts. Another trick that helps is YouTube downloader. Half the time I just add a bunch of videos into that application, download them, and watch them later. -Dragasoni-
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Robotics See You On The Dark Side Premium join:2003-10-23 Louisa, VA Reviews: ·Verizon Wireless.. ·Comcast	reply to CTMustang That is a great video (and a lot more like them on YT) I agree, YT has been screwed for the last few months. They appear to keep trying new idiot idea's from some of their lame employees, and its all getting mucked up. Just my opinion of course. -- Long you live and high you fly, and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry, and all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.
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moes join:2009-11-15 Indianapolis, IN	reply to CTMustang Watch the url sometimes, it states for me somethings (att.preferred.youtube.com) So my take on it is, ATT and youtube have setup a special routing and thus kicks things back during prime time.
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