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join:2003-12-03
Lincoln, NE | Amazon streaming now unwatchable - Time Warner limiting??? I have been streaming movies for several months now with my Amazon Prime account. I have noticed that the buffering has been getting more and more common the last few weeks and the last week or so it has become unwatchable.
Is this TWC putting the squeeze on the Amazon streams to get people to buy their movies instead? Anyone else experiencing the same issue?
I am on the 30/5 Extreme package with the SB6141. no other devices are using bandwidth while trying to watch Amazon. |
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 hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
kudos:8 | "Is this TWC putting the squeeze on the Amazon streams to get people to buy their movies instead? "
This is always the first reaction. Can we see some speed tests, traces, and any signal levels you happen to have?
Is the issue just affecting Amazon streams? You tube?
Hob
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Lincoln, NE | i get 30/5 speed tests consistently.
i am currently downloading 2 torrents.... 1 is rock solid @ 2.2MB/s, the other is 1MB/s. |
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hobgoblinSortof AgoblinPremium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
kudos:8 | So your issue is totally with Amazon?
Honestly its hard to make any other comment without anything to go on.
Hob
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Lincoln, NE
1 edit | yes that is correct.
i am currently watching youtube 1080p vids while torrents are maxing out my d/l speeds.
at times, however, youtube 1080p will NOT play, making me wonder if twc is putting the squeeze on that at times as well :\ |
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No, TWC is not limiting anything, it's your imagination. Do a tracert to the amazon servers. I know I have issues with 1080P loading sometimes on youtube even without torrenting. 1080p uses a lot of bandwidth, more than you'd expect, and sometimes the servers (especially youtube) can't handle it.
Find the Amazon movie server and do a tracert so we can see if/where lag is at. |
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2 edits | Amazon instant video craps out for me after like 30mins of watching a 480P movie and it annoys me, but I get a constant 30.5Mbps/5Mbps so its obviously Amazon's servers being funny. I'm not too impressed with the Amazon video service. EDIT: though, ah! we're from the same division so it's likely that our internet is routed through the same backbone servers, and I have issues with 1080P youtube a lot as well. |
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 StacyFotoDoguePremium
join:2001-11-02
New York, NY | reply to though
Amazon did have a Netflix outage on Christmas Day. They said it didn't effect Amazon Instant Video but maybe the issues are migrating? |
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Lincoln, NE | reply to though
i read that too and thought that was a possibility. you would think they would have it squared away 10 days later though? |
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Gee Fleeced are you a TWC engineer? No you say, then you cant say they are or ant limiting anything.
When specific services that are competition to TWC's services are rendered useless, yet other methods work. Occam's razor sugests its TWC traffic shaping that traffic, especially if it happens on non-peak times of day. |
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bn1221
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I can't stream 10-8P youtube on a Time Warner 250Mbit fiber link at a customer site. And since I'm their IT geek I can tell you its not the LAN. I figure the peering points may be overloaded - people on 15 Mbit FIOS seem to be able to get 1080P. I don't think TWC would throttle you. |
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said by Stacy:Amazon did have a Netflix outage on Christmas Day. They said it didn't effect Amazon Instant Video but maybe the issues are migrating?
Since Amazon and Netflix are different CDNs I'm not sure that that is relevant. |
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said by though:yes that is correct.
i am currently watching youtube 1080p vids while torrents are maxing out my d/l speeds.
at times, however, youtube 1080p will NOT play, making me wonder if twc is putting the squeeze on that at times as well :\
Youtube just sucks. It's not limited to TWC. I have this issue on an AT&T and a no-name-mom-and-pop cable company as well.
There was a Youtube video out there that showed you how to overcome the Youtube slowness. I ran that video and did what it said, and it seems to have fixed it for me on my RR link.
»www.youtube.com/my_speed
Not sure if this was it. Anyway, youtube will generally max out my connection now.
Now if maps.google.com didn't suck so bad.... |
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said by bn1221 
Since Amazon and Netflix are different CDNs I'm not sure that that is relevant.
Because Netflix utilizes Amazon's CDN to help deliver content to their customers? Which I admit is strange considering how much they compete with each other in the market for streaming video.
»www.homemediamagazine.com/netfli···dn-29175 |
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The whole point of streaming is to make viewing harder.
Piracy: the only way to watch. |
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though
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Lincoln, NE | reply to though
almost seems that way doesn't it :\ |
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StacyFotoDoguePremium
join:2001-11-02
New York, NY | reply to bn1221
said by bn1221:Since Amazon and Netflix are different CDNs I'm not sure that that is relevant.
Amazon Apologizes for Christmas Eve Outage |
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said by bn1221:I figure the peering points may be overloaded - people on 15 Mbit FIOS seem to be able to get 1080P. I don't think TWC would throttle you. Depends on your definition of "throttle." I consider knowingly overloading links or peering points in order to cause a bottleneck, or not doing anything to releave an overload, to be the same thing as throttling. The end result is pretty much the same at least.
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Netflix uses Limelight and L3. Amazon has its own CDN - different CDN? |
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kudos:8 | reply to mackey
Frequently traffic for other sites without problems traverse the same peering/transit points, so its possible the CDN side of the connection to those aggregation points might be the issue. You'd need more info to really figure it out.
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