"Guide" Fix Youtube Buffer issue On Virgin Media :)

FrenchTart said:
My fix for this issue was to move to another ISP. Worked a charm.
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This only issue with VM I would take my 120MB download over anything BT/SKY offer. I can download massive games from Steam/Origin @15 Megabyte/sec
This hasn't always been a issue and from what I understand VM are working on it.
But for time being blocking this IP address works.
 
Your blocking all IPs in this range: 62.252.0.0 - 62.252.255.255, thats 65534 IP addresses!!

Seems like a rather hammer fisted approach.

As a test I added it but removed it again because you have no idea what your blocking in that range, speeds to videos were higher tho.
 
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Concorde Rules said:
Your blocking all IPs in this range: 62.252.0.0 - 62.252.255.255, thats 65534 IP addresses!!

Seems like a rather hammer fisted approach.

As a test I added it but removed it again because you have no idea what your blocking in that range, speeds to videos were higher tho.
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But everything else seems to work? so why does it matter until a site won't load say Google then why care? That's how I see it.
 
shankly1985 said:
But everything else seems to work? so why does it matter until a site won't load say Google then why care? That's how I see it.
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You've tested/know all 65536 IPs have you?

It is an excessive approach to fixing a problem which probably only covers 20-30 virgin media IPs.

I've personally turned it off until I can be bothered to test further.
 
ive blocked it in my new asus router in firewall:

62.252.44.12 62.252.44.12 TCP
62.252.44.12 62.252.44.12 TCP ALL
62.252.44.12 62.252.44.12 UDP

and it does seem faster.
 
Just blocked 62.252.0.0/16 and could instantly see the difference, initial load is slightly longer but soon buffers up, can't thank you enough!
 
Haven't made any changes at all and past 2 days YouTube have been perfectly fine. Maybe they fixed something?

Or I just jinxed myself lol.
 
Concorde Rules said:
You've tested/know all 65536 IPs have you?

It is an excessive approach to fixing a problem which probably only covers 20-30 virgin media IPs.

I've personally turned it off until I can be bothered to test further.
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No I haven't did I say that? What I said is I not run into a issue and till I do then I will re-think if I need to block the IP address.
Not hard to understand?
 
shankly1985 said:
This only issue with VM I would take my 120MB download over anything BT/SKY offer. I can download massive games from Steam/Origin @15 Megabyte/sec
This hasn't always been a issue and from what I understand VM are working on it.
But for time being blocking this IP address works.
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I and others had tons of problems with VM. If you're in an area that is good then yeah, enjoy it. If you're not then your SOL for years at a time.
 
Virgin Media have released an update.

The latest update on this is that we've been working with Google to help them best utilise the Content Delivery Network we brought online two weeks ago and their system's algorithms should finish learning how to do that towards the end of this week. Once that's done any remaining YouTube streaming traffic using our transit links will fully move across to our dedicated peering links with Google, improving performance for YouTube.

We're also close to completing the addition of more peering capacity, which should improve performance further. Click here for some background on peering and transit links.

Work continues on troubleshooting any remaining issues with other streaming video sites but improvement is expected to be seen, particularly over this weekend.

I'll post another update later this week.

Thanks

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Up-to-60Mb-Speed/Video-Services-Buffering-pt3/m-p/1607660#M9949
 
shankly1985 said:
Hello I know a lot of us on here, who with VM been having buffer issue with HD YouTube videos. Well some guy over on the VM forums seems to have found a nice easy fix :)
I have just followed the guide and once I finished noticed Youtube was super fast like old day lol

Blocking 62.252.0.0/16 Range seems to be the better option.
What you need to do is Block this IP address 62.252.44.12 and that's it :D

Block an IP or IP Range in Windows Firewall
https://support.powerdnn.com/KB/a482/block-an-ip-or-ip-range-using-windows-firewall.aspx

Give it a try guys.
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If this works.

Im Going to have Sex with you.

Non Negotiable.
 
Concorde Rules said:
Your blocking all IPs in this range: 62.252.0.0 - 62.252.255.255, thats 65534 IP addresses!!

Seems like a rather hammer fisted approach.

As a test I added it but removed it again because you have no idea what your blocking in that range, speeds to videos were higher tho.
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Indeed, I was looking at blocking ip's on the weekend. First thing was I found tons of cache servers being used, far too many to trace and block individually so I then looked at blocking ranges but they contain all sorts of things on virgins network and not just caches.
 
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