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Re: Horrible youtube speeds It seems to be fixed in Pittsburgh, PA as of this very moment. I've been dealing with these atrocious "speeds" since February. 
-Currently streaming at 1080p
-Buffer bar loads almost instantly on all videos (back to normalcy)
Looking good!  |
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 InktomeiThe Rice Eating Machine
join:2001-02-02
Dallas, TX | reply to Bytezboy
I can barely play anything at all from YouTube tonight. It just gets stuck after a few seconds (at 360P) and won't budge. The weird thing is I was updating a few apps on my phone (connected through wifi) on Google Playstore, and it was DOG SLOW as well. I switched back to 4G and it worked fine.
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| reply to AlanM
1080p was slow tonight. |
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navyson
join:2011-07-15
Upper Marlboro, MD | reply to AlanM
Tonight seems a bit better for me. I am streaming many 1080p videos with no problems. |
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| reply to AlanM
Same in Plano, TX - terrible Youtube performance. This has been going on for weeks now - Youtube works great at work during the day (FIOS) and then when I get home (FIOS 75/35) most videos barely get through a few frames and then go into endless buffering. This seems to be independent of video quality. |
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| reply to ramell
terrible here in Irving,TX as well |
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 ramell
join:2002-02-12
Carrollton, TX | reply to navyson
Yup, pretty bad here in Carrollton, TX also. |
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said by navyson:Well. Youtube still stinks here.
Your savings are only temporary and after I guess 2 years, you will be paying through the roof. I currently pay over $150 a month for just TV and internet inclusive of equipment and sans premium channels.
Then I go back to Xfinity. 
I am now provider-agnostic. The big factor stopping me from switching earlier (my neighborhood was one of the first to get FIOS) was the fact that my "comcast.net" e-mail address was everywhere. With a little bit of effort I've now transitioned 95% of my logins to my gmail id.
After experiencing both providers, I think Xfinity's overall package (at least the stuff I use) is better, especially their mobile apps. but FIOS is good enough for me to enjoy the savings for a year or two anyway. |
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navyson
join:2011-07-15
Upper Marlboro, MD | reply to AlanM
Well. Youtube still stinks here.
Your savings are only temporary and after I guess 2 years, you will be paying through the roof. I currently pay over $150 a month for just TV and internet inclusive of equipment and sans premium channels. |
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I switched to FIOS from Comcast about three weeks ago. This is/was almost a dealbreaker for me, and I considered cancelling and going back to Xfinity. I'm going to stick it out however (the savings are just too big to ignore) and hope that someday soon Verizon gets this fixed.
I've tried a bunch of fixes that have been posted on-line. Proxfree works but is a PITA, especially on an iPod or iPad. I've also added address ranges in the router to reject and that appeared to help (a bit) but doesn't work always and is not a permanent solution.
This seems to have been going on for quite some time so I don't have a lot of confidence that this is going to get fixed anytime soon, unfortunately  |
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 SikoPremium
join:2006-11-27
Mechanicsburg, PA | reply to navyson
Same here. |
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navyson
join:2011-07-15
Upper Marlboro, MD | reply to Vamp
said by Vamp:Back to not working at all on some videos.
I experienced the same thing tonight. They must have changed something again. |
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 Vamp5c077Premium
join:2003-01-28
MD
kudos:1 | reply to AlanM
Back to not working at all on some videos. |
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mloebl
join:2003-01-03
Tyngsboro, MA | reply to AlanM
Ever since some sort of "change" a couple weeks ago where everything for me seemed to speed up (not just Youtube), I can stream 720p and 1080p all the time still (last night at prime time was streaming wonderful). I haven't seen a single video buffer since.
I wonder how much of the issue is a combination of bandwidth issues between Verizon/Google (maybe fixed or improved), and localized issues (faulty equipment, bad routing, congestion, which is what I was having issues with as well.)
-Mike |
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Bengie25
join:2010-04-22
Wisconsin Rapids, WI | reply to guppy_fish
You don't pay for peering, hence the word "peer", which means "equal".
The content provider pays for their Internet connection, then the ISPs pay for their own connection.
Because the ISP wants to lower their costs and the content provider wants to lower their costs also, they peer with each other instead of paying a middle-man.
Most of the time, the ISP wants to increase the quality of their connection to major content providers in a bid to be competitive, but with a lack of competition, Verizon has no reason to increase quality.
Netflix has a whole other issue. They are a paid service, unlike Youtube, and Netflix competes with TV, so they want to give comparative quality.
In order to increase quality, Netflix pays a premium above normal content providers in order to help ISPs with increased load caused by streaming services. |
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navyson
join:2011-07-15
Upper Marlboro, MD | reply to AlanM
I tested a couple videos at 1080p and they played without a problem.
It seems like a hit or miss for me tonight. |
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No issues with 1080p now. |
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navyson
join:2011-07-15
Upper Marlboro, MD | reply to AlanM
I was able to watch a video at 480p. At 720p, the same video could not play. |
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Anyone else having issues tonight? Barely getting more than 300KB/s on youtube |
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tito79
join:2010-03-14
Brewster, NY | reply to seaquake
I don't have no problems with youtube at all I watch videos all day long no laging or freezing. |
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