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| reply to rustydusty
Re: [BC] Horrendous YouTube performance I the post above doesn't make sense to you I give up, common reading comprehension is obviously not your forte. I'd draw a picture but even the video clearly didn't do the trick.
Just don't come on here acting like Shaw has no issues and attempting to derail the thread when even you yourself need to change their default settings for your own setup to work.
Its not honest to mislead readers this way. |
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| reply to Slack
I've never used the Shaw DNS for a personal preference, not because theirs has issues. You need to go take your A+ again as you've fallen far off the basics.
If only your networking skills were as good as your video recording skills, we wouldn't be having this discussion  . |
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| reply to Baud1200
Good luck man. I was on BB100 a while ago and had saturation problems on my node and yes, YouTube issues as well. It is a Shaw issue with routing and you won't get much luck from fixing this issue. Best advice, go with a non cable internet provider.
Your best price/performance ratio package would probably be with Teksavvy 25 DSL. It's 10x slower than your theoretically 250Mbit/s but you get unlimited bandwidth at less than a 1/4th the cost. |
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Look at this ladies, loaded 3 1080p HD test videos on Youtube at the same time, imagine that! You should definitely switch to a Telus reseller. I'll even pay your first month so I can bid you farewall.
Really struggling here with my terrible Shaw routing, saturated node issues here, help me someone. It's definitely nothing on my side of things...
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| Impressive. You almost reached my maximum. How about downloading a BD50 disc off usenet, playing 3 4k YouTube steams and bragging about your internet connection more than trying to help keep from Shaw losing a customer. Really, nobody gives a shit what you can do with your connection. If you can't help the fellow out, stfu. |
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| Got 3 videos streaming along at 1080p now. Really are some nice videos on youtube, isn't there? Some nice high quality videos to test issues. Anyone wants, can come over and stream youtube all day long here. No charge, unless you want your own VM on my hyper-v machine to play with 
Also, Shaw is better off without a customer like him. He's more of a pain to deal with than to keep him. It's part of business. Some just aren't worth the hassle to have. |
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| reply to rustydusty
said by rustydusty:I've never used the Shaw DNS for a personal preference, not because theirs has issues. You need to go take your A+ again as you've fallen far off the basics.
If only your networking skills were as good as your video recording skills, we wouldn't be having this discussion .
Funny a machine can move like that recording video any still have "hardware issues" eh? Can figure that out but don't know what a speed test is... And you question my troubleshooting process...
If you read, I wasn't epeening when i said i was running proliants like you think. not everything is a pissing contest as it seems to be from your perspective. I said it because they are proprietary hardware with no assembly required on the admins part.
A+ is irrelevant, you can't misconfigure it if you don't touch the hardware configuration. Its tested business level hardware. I know it was a bad attempt at humor but it goes to show that you really aren't reading anything posted.
More things I already mentioned in previous posts.. would quote it again but you likely would chose to overlook it a second time. Wasted enough time already trying to get through to you. People can read it for themselves. |
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| reply to Slack
i don't think it's a routing problem but i do think the issue is originating from Shaw. don't waste anymore time fixing the issue yourself, you won't be able to unless Shaw checks their end to find the source of the problem. |
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| reply to Slack
Running proaliants still has absolutely nothing to do with this. It could be a firewall/switch issue. Provide something directly to the modem with a laptop to provide some realistic data without possibility of hardware issues after the modem, it's the only truly way to tell. I would bet if you went directly to modem it works wonderfully. It's something after the modem, usually is. |
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| reply to Slack
YouTubeSpeed |
I have Broadband 100 and it been terrible lately... I only watch a few vids here and there but it still pretty annoying... |
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| reply to Slack
Aye! |
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| I recently switched back to Shaw (just on their standard 10mbit highspeed) and i'm noticing the same issue with netflix.
Tried playing a show and after an extended period of "testing line speed" it started playing... but the quality was complete shit. That was off of the TV.
So tried netflix on the blu-ray player... same thing, although the blu-ray shows the current down speed as it plays... and it can't crack 0.5mbps.
Ran a shaw speedtest, 25mbit down :S... same thing from speedtest.net
Able to download a service pack from download.microsoft.com and saturate the connection.
Tried netflix from the same computer that did the speedtests... and brought up the "Stream Manager" (when playing... hold ALT - Left Shift, and click the screen) to select the higher bitrate... it won't play at anything higher than 500kbps.
NEVER had this issue with my previous provider... |
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| reply to Slack
Some of us on Telus are having seemingly the same problem, see this thread: » [AB] Youtube.com appears to be throttled
I am more inclined to suspect it is an issue with the CDN than with ISP. (Which is why I decided to pop over here to the Shaw forum and see if there was a similar thread.)
One thing us Telus users have noticed is that even when YouTube performance is too slow to watch normal videos in HD, the "test video" at »youtube.com/my_speed still loads quickly and will play fine in HD. I'm curious if any Shaw folks have experienced the same. |
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| reply to Slack
Yup, it's not narrowed to a single ISP. I literally have people around my house on Shaw residential having a hell of a time. I've checked a couple and speeds are good, just Youtube and Netflix stutter. I'm on Shaw biz, two statics and have DHCP/DNS provided via DC on a hyper-v host and no issues. As stated, my forwarders are set to Google only. I can stream without any issues on anything. Also checked our shop which is a similar setup. We are on 6 bonded T1's from Telus, DHCP/DNS via DC on an esxi host. Google is the only forwarder there as well. I have absolutely no idea what is going on, but besides DHCP and DNS being server side instead of gateway side my setup is fairly similar to everyone else. Oh, and my DNS is using Google instead of Shaw. Whether that fixes the issue is up to someone else to try and see if it helps. I haven't had one single issue in 3 years since we had some saturation issues. |
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| reply to mnorton_edm
what makes you think ISPs don't have their own CDN? please..i'm trying to state the obvious... |
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| reply to mnorton_edm
This is what I am seeing as far as speed tests with shaw:
»dl.dropbox.com/u/425525/chart.png
Very odd. |
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| reply to someshawguy
said by someshawguy :what makes you think ISPs don't have their own CDN? please..i'm trying to state the obvious... I'm sorry, but I guess I'm missing what you mean. Instead of "trying" to state it, could you just state it? 
ISPs might have a CDN for their own content, but it is specifically YouTube that we are talking about here. Perhaps Google might hire CDN services from regional ISPs, but I would still consider that to be part of "the YouTube CDN." |
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Edmonton, AB | reply to Slack
I'm really getting slow YouTube performance these days. DPC3825 bridged, RT-N16. Namebench tests tell me that my Edmonton DNS servers are slower than Calgary, Vancouver, or Google DNS too. |
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| reply to Slack
Issue seems to be Canada wide, and not narrowed down to a single ISP. Still haven't seen any of the issues myself, and I'm in the center of where all the issues seem to be coming from. Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, ETC. Here I sit in RD with not a single blimp, somehow. |
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| reply to Slack
I am pretty sure this is a Youtube limitation since I have always had buffering issues regardless of internet plan. |
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