Reviews:
 ·Verizon FiOS
| reply to alanisrox69
Re: Horrible youtube speeds said by alanisrox69:said by guppy_fish:Have your buddy play the video and do a netstat in a command shell and get the IP's he is getting the content from, that will settle whats going on here
You do the same thing ... with the IP's we can find out what the difference is.
Not his buddy, but here. (youtube clip) Fios: 173.194.53.115 on RCN (cable): 207.172.195.204 Fios, doesn't load, buffers. On RCN, video loaded completely in under 30seconds. Getting less than 150Kbytes/s. 
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75/35 Fios, Triple Play Extreme. |
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navyson
join:2011-07-15
Upper Marlboro, MD
1 edit | reply to AlanM
Re: Horrible youtube speeds I have a Roku box and I used to watch alot of HD videos on its Youtube channel. Now, the youtube channel is basically useless because it buffers excessively and when it does play, it downgrades it to 240p which is unwatchable on TV. All other channels on the Roku including Netflix, Amazon, HBO Go plays perfectly in wonderful HD with no problems.
The same thing will happen to the new FIOS media server DVR with its youtube channel when it launches if the issue isn't resolved. |
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I am in Delaware and have been having issues since about November 2012. The streaming issues with Youtube have gotten progressively worse. Back in November I only had issues streaming at 720p or 1080p quality. For the past week or so I can't even stream in 240p!!
As suggested by others I have tweeted Verizon. I hope this can get in front of the right people so that whatever network/peer is responsible for this problem can resolve their issue. |
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| reply to navyson
Re: Horrible youtube speeds Thought it just me, it is completely random and can be the worst quality video, and still buffer on 280p.
Only thing to fix is to keep hitting reload until it find a connection or server that is fune.
Been having this for months, never bothered to make ticket, because i know how verizon support is, will say nothing wrong on their end and i must have a virus |
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Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
| reply to AlanM
Amazing I can max out my download at 84Mbit/s at 2am on this 1080p video: »www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyaJ2cUX6K0
Their servers must be very close to my home. 
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75/35 Fios, Triple Play Extreme. |
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andyjai
join:2001-09-12
Rowland Heights, CA | reply to AlanM
I had youtube streaming problem during peak hours (1-2Mbps streaming from 5pm to 2am) for months. Then last month, my connections to various sites got serious slow down with package lost only during peak hours. I contacted verzion and they fixed the problem in about a week. Ever since they fixed the equipment problem, I have no problem with youtube any more. I can stream 20-50Mbps during peak hours. |
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 Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:22
 ·Verizon Online DSL
·Frontier Communi..
| reply to guppy_fish
said by guppy_fish:Its not a network issue within Verizon or Peering, its within Google and they could careless as its not a subscription service.
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They do have the Pay Per View videos, but in the future they are going to be rolling out some Pay to View Channels as well on YouTube. Likely, that will be the key motivator to get these slow-downs to stop for good.
It also seems RCN, as mentioned above has their own on-network caching server. Doesn't seem like they just one either, a quick Google search turns up several that the use. That would certainly do it if they've spent the time and effort to make their own cache. A lot of high traffic places like Universities do the same thing. |
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Reviews:
 ·Time Warner Cable
| reply to AlanM
Sorry guys as I just realized that this is the Verizon FIOS channel, but I found it while looking for how to fix my stupid YouTube buffering problems.
I found that firewall trick about blocking 206.111.0.0/16 and HOLY COW! It works wonderfully! Can now stream 1080p videos with NO buffering.
That Taylor Swift video wouldnt even load the 340p before and then I tried after the firewall block and BLAMMO. Loaded the whole 1080p in under about 30 seconds. For some reason most of the time when I try to watch videos it would only load up to the speaker icon for YouTube volume and then I have to sit and wait.
Hope you guys try that fix. It suuuure helped me out on TWC here in Kansas City. |
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navyson
join:2011-07-15
Upper Marlboro, MD | said by StubbyinKCMO:Sorry guys as I just realized that this is the Verizon FIOS channel, but I found it while looking for how to fix my stupid YouTube buffering problems.
I found that firewall trick about blocking 206.111.0.0/16 and HOLY COW! It works wonderfully! Can now stream 1080p videos with NO buffering.
That Taylor Swift video wouldnt even load the 340p before and then I tried after the firewall block and BLAMMO. Loaded the whole 1080p in under about 30 seconds. For some reason most of the time when I try to watch videos it would only load up to the speaker icon for YouTube volume and then I have to sit and wait.
Hope you guys try that fix. It suuuure helped me out on TWC here in Kansas City.
Can you give us specific instructins on how you to this "firewall trick" |
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Reviews:
·Time Warner Cable
| MrFuji posted it back on page 1 of this very thread.
You have to go into advanced settings for Windows Firewall and tell it to block that IP range.
Well, MrFuji posted up the link to Reddit, but he explained it as well. Just follow his directions or the ones on Reddit and you will be good to go. I have been looking for videos to watch now as its finally nice to watch them with OUT buffering issues. |
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For Windows XP and higher:
1. Open Windows Firewall with Advanced Security through the Administrative Tools in the Control Panel
2. Click on New Rule link on the right Sidebar
3. Select Custom Rule
4. Leave All Programs selected, click next
5. Protocol type: All, click next
6. Select "These IP addresses" in the remote IP addresses section, click Add button
7. Paste: 206.111.0.0/16 into the box and click OK
8. Make sure Block This Connection is selected, click Next
9. Be sure Private and Public networks are checked (if Domain is listed, check it too), click Next
10. Name the rule. I used "Youtube Fix"
11. Click Finish
12. Test your connection with Youtube |
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 shmee
join:2005-04-03
Phoenixville, PA | reply to AlanM
i just wanted to report that blocking the ip range previously posted by mrfuji worked for me.
all videos (both sd and hd) are zipping right along with no hiccups/buffering.
i'm on 75/35 in vho8. |
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 MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:1 | reply to AlanM
That's just for Windows desktops though.
I'm sure if that IP is blocked at the router end, it would be nice.
I'll tinker with it when I get home. |
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| reply to navyson
»Why Is Everyone Having YouTube Streaming Issues? |
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| reply to AlanM
Hey guys this was on the news the issue it looks like its coming from youtube directly not from your speed. |
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shmee
join:2005-04-03
Phoenixville, PA Reviews:
·Verizon FiOS
1 edit | reply to Mike
said by Mike:That's just for Windows desktops though.
I'm sure if that IP is blocked at the router end, it would be nice.
I'll tinker with it when I get home.
i actually blocked the ip range at my router. i'm running a linksys wrt320n with dd-wrt firmware and i used the following:
iptables -I FORWARD -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 206.111.0.0/16 -j REJECT
of course, you have to substitute 192.168.1.0 with whatever gateway you're using. i can confirm that by blocking the ip range at the router level, youtube speeds were even fixed on my chromebook, not just my windows machines. haven't done much android testing yet, though. i tend not to watch too many videos on my phone.
edit: just for the sake of being thorough, i'm also gonna block 173.194.55.0/24 as that seems to be the other ip range folks are having trouble with. |
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MikePremium,Mod
join:2000-09-17
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:1 | I wanted to do on the router level so my iPad and other stuff would work good too. Might as well do it as upstream as I can go |
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navyson
join:2011-07-15
Upper Marlboro, MD
1 edit | reply to AlanM
I use a Trendnet WAP that powers all my wireless devices(laptop/Roku,cellphone). I assume I should be able to log into it and do the same thing? |
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