US Cable Support > OptimumOnline > [OOL] is punishing encrypted YouTube straems at prime time?

reply to MxxCon

Re: [OOL] is punishing encrypted YouTube straems at prime time?

reply to MxxCon

I'm not having any of these problems either in your described "peak hours". I tested it multiple days, and no issues loading anything in HTTPS up to 1080p.

I have the 50/8 plan and everything working fine... I really think this is an issue on your end and nothing to do with CV. But believe what you'd like, I don't understand why they would block just you from accessing YouTube at full speeds on the HTTPS protocol.

You must wear some sort of tin foil hats all the time or something.

reply to MxxCon
If by "nation security letter" you mean National Security Letter (NSL), you are incorrect as NSLs do not allow for "content" let alone intercepts - the latter of which requires a Title 3 (T3) or FISA.

As such, for any provider to intercept and decrypt packets or any other data w/out either of the above would in fact, be illegal.

reply to MxxCon
Incorrect. NSLs do not "override" the requirement of a T3 or FISA intercept (or search warrant).

reply to MxxCon
For what it's worth, I never tried to connect to youtube with https. But due to this thread, I did and have been connecting at different times to see if I could notice a difference between https and http at the highest resolution.

I couldn't.
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reply to MxxCon
At the risk of introducing a fact into this conversation.

Out of curiosity, I just watched a video I have seen in the past using https.

It was 480p, and as best I can tell just as fast. I have asked youtube to use html5 when available - both the http and https streams where html5.

Which leaves many possibilities, one of which is that the original poster's machine is slow enough that https is a problem.

I have normal service. The machine I tested on sees 18.6mb on speakeasy speed test.

OP lives in Brooklyn. Techs there tried to unionize, and the CWA is notorious for screwing with service during contract talks. When Verizon went on strike, tons of outages. Both times. The most likely culprit is lazy disgruntled techs sabotaging the network. Because you know, the CWA is trying to claim Cablevision is intentionally giving poor service to residents of Brooklyn. What's more likely, a company that wants your money and that does have and will (assuming they keep up THEIR end of the franchise agreement) direct competition with Verizon in NYC? Or scumbags who want to be paid insane amounts of money because the union says they deserve it, and not the marketplace.

reply to MxxCon
Do you have any problems with any other HTTPS streaming video besides youtube?

When I tried that test, Vimeo and 'adult entertainment' website worked fine.

Today YouTube seemed to work normal..
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reply to ShockTech

The CWA has absolutely 0% to do with the CV internal network, and their reach is strictly limited to outside plant & customer premise wiring (as they just have some field service & OSP techs, from what I recall reading). They have no way to implement such a thing on any CV customer/customers, so please do everyone a favor and stop even entertaining the thought.

reply to frdrizzt
You do understand that the employees in Brooklyn also means the inside plant employees, correct? In addition to all their construction, their dispatchers, and other customer service people. Also, lots of service issues could be caused without having any access to the head ends.