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Crusty
join:2008-11-11
Sanger, TX

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Re: [CenturyTel] Is CenturyLink throttling YouTube?

I have the same issue from around 1900-2200 local time.

No, it's not my setup - If it was my setup, then I would have buffering issues at every other time i'm on it. And Im on it a lot.

It has to be CTL throttling it at certain times to help "manage" their network. Just about any other time, i can stream 1080p from youtube without flaw/no buffering.

codyyy
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has anyone found a easy solution for this right now its 9pm and im lucky to get speeds over 1.5mbps on youtube, but my speeds on speedtest.net are normal

fixedmetubes
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said by xsbell:

said by Hazy Arc:

said by xsbell:

The issue is with CenturyLink's cache servers, which are provided to them by Google.

If changing your DNS servers still lands you on their congested cache servers, just start adding them to your HOSTS file.

Can you expound on this a bit more? Do you have any suggested cache servers to add?

I will never be able to land on a CenturyLink cache server, so I can't help you with hostnames, but if you use Wireshark, TCPdump, or even URLsnooper (easiest), you can find out where the videos are coming from. You can also do this with IDM and jdownloader. A lot of cache servers I've seen have the word "cache" somewhere in the hostname, but this isn't always the case.

Just download URLsnooper, open it up and change the protocol filter to 'Show All', then start sniffing. Once you hit a video that loads slow and/or buffers a lot, check where it's coming from and add the hostname to your HOSTS..

127.0.0.1     r4---sn-2gph0nj5o-tt1e.c.youtube.com   #//This is one of my ISPs cache servers
 

Yep this solution does work and other people with similar issues that solved it.

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codyyy
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what do mean by add the hostname to your hosts?

xsbell
join:2008-12-22
Canada

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said by codyyy :

what do mean by add the hostname to your hosts?

Hosts is a file (with no extension) located in your Windows\System32\Drivers\etc directory. Open notepad (with admin privileges), navigate to that directory, select All Files *.*, and open it.
usquared
join:2005-08-14
Spokane, WA

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Same here on a 40/20 connection. Can't watch anything above 360p without buffering. Just contacted CenturyLink support to report the issue.

If you right click and click "show video info" you'll see how it's hardly downloading at all.

Sportsfan
join:2012-03-26

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I've been having this problem for about a month; I can't even get a 360p video to play without skipping and halting between 1800-2300 local time on a nominal 1.5 Mb (1.3 Mb tested) CL connection with the default CL DNS. I can download YT videos normally when using the DTA Firefox extension, but it's annoying to have to do that, so I'll try some of the ideas suggested here.