Its not just you I have the same problem on Rogers and my VPN as well, I tried both Toronto and New York servers on my VPN and all are super slow on youtube during peak times. I'm starting to think its youtube IP transit links that are saturated because it not node congestion because during peak times the nodes still has 200+Mbps of capacity available to use and my VPN still pulls 100+Mbps during peak times. Also when a video is on rogers cache servers it streams at 75Mbps even during peak times so that's why I think its transit that's saturated.
i WAS using googles DNS (8.8.8.8) after itunes kept disconnecting while downloading a few months ago, and i turned it off which fixed the problem a bit.. its still not giving me the speed it should though.
Definitely having the same issues with Youtube. It's extremely annoying. In my case it appears to be fairly random. One or two videos refuse to buffer and or buffer every few seconds, while trying a third works perfectly fine.
Note: Nothing else going on at the same time. No torrents, downloads or anything else strenuous to the connection.
Definitely having the same issues with Youtube. It's extremely annoying. In my case it appears to be fairly random. One or two videos refuse to buffer and or buffer every few seconds, while trying a third works perfectly fine.
Note: Nothing else going on at the same time. No torrents, downloads or anything else strenuous to the connection.
The thing is its random because some video are on rogers cache server and if they are on rogers cache server then they stream just fine any time of the day, but on youtube's server during the evening it gets very slow.
i would like to put in my 2 cents too. i am having the same exact issue, however for me it started (from what i can remember) after i upgraded to the new ultimate. before this i was on extreme plus and never had issues buffering youtube. now with new ultimate i cannot watch youtube videos without it getting stuck at buffering. my download speeds are fine, i can download at over 4000kb/s with no issues. seems to be only with youtube.
i dont see what the big problem is? my speed is fast, i watch one you tube video a day, and check email, and surf google and yahoo and maybe face book or twitter, does that take up a lot of traffic for waht i do?
i dont see what the big problem is? my speed is fast, i watch one you tube video a day, and check email, and surf google and yahoo and maybe face book or twitter, does that take up a lot of traffic for waht i do?
Not sure what your point is. You're describing your usage but it has no bearing on this conversation.
Last night I went to watch some random Youtube videos and ran into this problem yet again. I find that if I'm seeking out videos which wouldn't necessarily be popular or watched recently they get stuck buffering, repeatedly. If I refresh a few times, it finally buffers quickly. However, it can still buffer about midway and completely stop again.
I find that if I'm seeking out videos which wouldn't necessarily be popular or watched recently they get stuck buffering, repeatedly. If I refresh a few times, it finally buffers quickly. However, it can still buffer about midway and completely stop again.
This is obnoxious.
Exactly same thing here, the refresh causes you to switch server and it works fine for most videos but other do not. Also some time it doesn't go to rogers cache server on first try but after a couple of F5 it magically switches to rogers cache server. I don't think this problem is on rogers end.
For example:
o-o---preferred---sn-ab5e6nls---v5---nonxt3.c.youtube.com IP: 173.194.31.182 (This server is youtube's server, so I watch a video and it connects to this server and in 1080p it downloads at 1Mbps on my 75mbps connection, meaning I cannot watch it at 1080p)
o-o---preferred---sn-gvbxgn-tt1e---v5---lscache3.c.youtube.com IP: 64.71.249.80 (This is rogers cache server, after I refresh the page on the same video as above it connects to the rogers server and at 1080p it downloads at more than 75Mbps on my 75Mbps connection and I can watch the video perfectly.)
So the problem is either youTube or rogers IP transit for sn-ab5e6nls. I have done everything to let rogers know about the problem but they haven't been able to figure out why it just doesn't go to the cache server at once because rogers server is always able to stream video at max speeds.
All Google has been horrendous for me for months. In particular blogspot.com which redirects to blogspot.ca for anyone's blog. Then google.ca which can hang to the point I close the tab and try again. Youtube also has seen difficulties but I don't use it much and for what I have recently it worked okay, but in the recent past highest HD quality vids woud require stepping down until it worked smoothly. They've done something to their network as seen below, doesn't work very well:
GOOGLE.CA
Tracing route to ve-in-f94.1e100.net [173.194.75.94] with TTL of 32: