[Cable] Youtube lags at night still, upgrade cache servers?

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HKPolice join:2002-08-09 Scarborough, ON	[Cable] Youtube lags at night still, upgrade cache servers? Unable to stream 1080p videos smoothly during peak hours without buffering every minute, on Cable 28. Anyone else experiencing this?
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ragingwolf join:2003-04-22 Nepean, ON	Its most likely your last mile connection. Have you done multiple speedtests during this time?
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brad join:2007-09-06 Etobicoke, ON	said by ragingwolf: Its most likely your last mile connection. Have you done multiple speedtests during this time? That's not necessarily true. The Google cache servers located on TSI's network have been found to have performance issues at least 2 times, maybe more and I've never seen a response in the respective threads indicating actual resolution of the issues.
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jmck formerly 'shaded' join:2010-10-02 Ottawa, ON	Same here and I have no last-mile/Rogers segment congestion issue. 1080p can't be played without letting it buffer quite a bit or pausing it during peak.
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TSI Gabe Premium,VIP join:2007-01-03 Chatham, ON kudos:2	Google just finished the last few config bits of an upgraded caching node, it should be up within the next week.
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resa1983 Premium join:2008-03-10 North York, ON kudos:7	reply to HKPolice Oooh.. Awesome.. Was just asking about this myself in the IRC channel last night. -- Battle.net Tech Support MVP
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brad join:2007-09-06 Etobicoke, ON	reply to TSI Gabe said by TSI Gabe: Google just finished the last few config bits of an upgraded caching node, it should be up within the next week. Good to hear that. Hopefully that will resolve most if not all of the YouTube related issues for quite some time.
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d4m1r join:2011-08-25 Reviews: ·Start Communicat.. ·TekSavvy Cable ·Rogers Hi-Speed	said by brad: said by TSI Gabe: Google just finished the last few config bits of an upgraded caching node, it should be up within the next week. Good to hear that. Hopefully that will resolve most if not all of the YouTube related issues for quite some time. How long is quite some time? I've never had this issue before...Until this week, so I'm glad this thread came up. I'm in Ottawa West btw and I'll be checking next week I guess... -- www.613websites.com ● Budget Canadian Web Design and Hosting
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brad join:2007-09-06 Etobicoke, ON	said by d4m1r: How long is quite some time? I've never had this issue before...Until this week, so I'm glad this thread came up. I'm in Ottawa West btw and I'll be checking next week I guess... Then you're lucky. Lots of people complain about the poor performance with YouTube and not being able to be fed the content fast enough to ensure smooth playback which meant users had to buffer quite a bit of the video before hitting play otherwise it would stop / be choppy during playback. There was a thread where someone had looked into the issue a bit closer and found when hitting a YouTube node on Google's network the performance was fine but when it hit the local cache there was a huge drop in the speed with which the content was being streamed. Possibly the cache was maxed out for capacity? I would hope at least a year before having to do any upgrades if not longer.
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Leathal Premium join:2002-02-09 M1S0G4 kudos:2	reply to HKPolice No issues for me with YouTube videos at 1080p on my cable service at night. I am on the 28Mbps service as well and live in the Kennedy and 401 area.
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Sanek join:2006-08-10 Kanata, ON	reply to HKPolice There have been problems with cache servers for a while now (look up my posts from like a month ago). It's not as bad now as its been before Christmas, but it could be because the demand dropped for the holiday season (don't know if that's the case). It's been mostly OK during the holiday season and still OK at the moment for me. Just for the record, I always verify the connection speed first and then speed I get to the cache server (visible in NetLimiter).
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resa1983 Premium join:2008-03-10 North York, ON kudos:7 Reviews: ·TekSavvy Cable	It has been really odd because you can watch a video that buffers perfect, followed by a video that won't buffer at all, followed by another video that goes perfect.. I find if I try to replay a video later that didn't buffer earlier, it still doesn't work. -- Battle.net Tech Support MVP
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brad join:2007-09-06 Etobicoke, ON	said by resa1983: It has been really odd because you can watch a video that buffers perfect, followed by a video that won't buffer at all, followed by another video that goes perfect.. I find if I try to replay a video later that didn't buffer earlier, it still doesn't work. I would check which cache node you're hitting with each time you're playing. It sounds like you're hitting a different node each time the behaviour changes.
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Sanek join:2006-08-10 Kanata, ON	reply to resa1983 said by resa1983: It has been really odd because you can watch a video that buffers perfect, followed by a video that won't buffer at all, followed by another video that goes perfect.. I find if I try to replay a video later that didn't buffer earlier, it still doesn't work. Look here: »Re: [Cable] Why is Youtube streaming on Cable always brutally sl Also, you can try viewing a video (make sure it gets loaded completely), then closing the page and reopening it again. There is a good chance that it will play from the cache server the second time.
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jmck formerly 'shaded' join:2010-10-02 Ottawa, ON Reviews: ·TekSavvy DSL ·Start Communicat..	reply to resa1983 said by resa1983: It has been really odd because you can watch a video that buffers perfect, followed by a video that won't buffer at all, followed by another video that goes perfect.. I find if I try to replay a video later that didn't buffer earlier, it still doesn't work. yes, i would also have videos that would just stop buffering entirely 20-50% in requiring me to refresh the page and it usually fixed it. these seem to all be signs of broken caching.
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ChuckcZar @teksavvy.com	reply to HKPolice Same problem is also seen with Shaw cable and Telus out west. This problem is only akin to Canada for some reason and doesn't occur from anywhere else in the world even the third world isp's.
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HKPolice join:2002-08-09 Scarborough, ON	reply to HKPolice Any updates on this situation? I'm speedtesting @ over 28Mbit but youtube is still slow as hell @ ~350-450KB/s.
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CyberCam join:2008-04-21 Whitby, ON	I'm having this issue as well? Everything is great when speed testing but even playing 480p videos are buffering a lot!
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jmck formerly 'shaded' join:2010-10-02 Ottawa, ON	yeah youtube still sucks on TSI.
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morisato join:2008-03-16 Oshawa, ON Reviews: ·TekSavvy Cable ·TekSavvy DSL ·ELECTRONICBOX	reply to HKPolice youtube is weird i get issues with it but then stream netflix Superhd fine p:) its clearly not a simple issue the bandwidth is there on my end just its getting lost in translation -- Every time Someone leaves Sympatico an Angel gets its wings.
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