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

I don't really see the problem. Block the range to get YouTube working - if you have a problem, take it out. Hardly a massive chore

- GP
 
GhostlyPea said:
I don't really see the problem. Block the range to get YouTube working - if you have a problem, take it out. Hardly a massive chore

- GP
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This... Since I have do this IP block I have not had one issue with any program/game or site loading.
Yes true it might block a lot more than we need, but whats the care till something do work for you? all you have to do is delete the firewall entry.

But anyway I posted up Virgin media have yesterday released an update saying things should be ok by end of the week/next week.
:D
 
Has anybody else not blocking any ip's noticed a change in youtube performance tonight? Mine seems to be far more usable tonight with no having to wait for it to buffer before I can watch.
 
Jayster said:
Has anybody else not blocking any ip's noticed a change in youtube performance tonight? Mine seems to be far more usable tonight with no having to wait for it to buffer before I can watch.
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Could be down to this... I not test that much today but I have unblocked the IP's for now.
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
 
shankly1985 said:
Could be down to this... I not test that much today but I have unblocked the IP's for now.
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
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Yea I saw that earlier but just figured it was virgin feeding us all crap to try and keep us quiet. Hopefully it stays useable/gets better tho.

Btw heres a TBB graph to what I believe is a cache server (62.252.44.45).

It has looked like this for the past 6 days that I have been pinging it:
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But tonight it looked like this:
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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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It will if they don't move the caching servers (unlikely I admit).
 
Under what basis? There is absoloutly no harm in doing so. The only issue that can happen is failure to access a resource, which is easily remedied by simply disabling or removing the rule.

- GP
 
Because it's a big network and there's no way of knowing what else you're blocking. Someone should figure out which IPs are Virgin's and hinder buffering and produce a much more accurate mask.
 
While I agree with your sentiment, if it was as simple as finding the correct IPs easily then I'm sure that would have been done by somebody. As already said though, this is a temporary fix to a problem that is easily disabled in under 30 seconds if something doesn't work. Clearly you will only have an issue if something doesn't work, in which case see my previous point. If you don't have a problem then it's irrelevant as you weren't accessing that resource anyway. There really is no issue with using this fix temporarily

- GP
 
GhostlyPea said:
While I agree with your sentiment, if it was as simple as finding the correct IPs easily then I'm sure that would have been done by somebody. As already said though, this is a temporary fix to a problem that is easily disabled in under 30 seconds if something doesn't work. Clearly you will only have an issue if something doesn't work, in which case see my previous point. If you don't have a problem then it's irrelevant as you weren't accessing that resource anyway. There really is no issue with using this fix temporarily

- GP
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It is simple to do just very very time consuming.
 
Jayster said:
It is simple to do just very very time consuming.
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No it isn't, it takes about 30 seconds =/

Westyfield2 said:
+1. Blocking a whole 16-bit block doesn't sound all that good to me!
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Again - saying this but no actually justification as to why... especially since its 30 seconds to temporarily disable the rule?

It's only temporary and is a no brainer of a trade off considering its either

- Have Youtube working and 99% chance you wont have any consequences

or

- Have an issue and take 30 seconds to just turn the rule off. Problem solved

People are just saying it's a bad idea without any justification which his short sighted, especially considering there hasn't been a service list that's Vital on that range that's been identified. Saying "its a bad idea" for no valid reason is a poor show...

- GP
 
shankly1985 said:
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
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Something has definitely changed. I can now instantly start watching 1080p YouTube videos whilst it quickly buffers the rest. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8evyE9TuYk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVu3gS7iJu4&list=UUjmJDM5pRKbUlVIzDYYWb6g&index=3

I've been using these 1080p movie trailers as my test videos. I'm also able to jump ahead to unbuffered sections if i'm quick enough and it instantly continues playback.

Extremely impressed.

*Edit* Just to be clear, I haven't blocked any IPs etc.
 
I'm confused as to what you're saying. It only takes 30 seconds to block the /16 range as said, with next to no, if any consequences. I'm not talking about them individually as I don't believe anybody has provided an accurate, complete list of cache servers. Unless you happen to have it (the one above isn't correct any more from what I can see)?

Unless I misread your earlier post?

- GP
 
GhostlyPea said:
I'm confused as to what you're saying. It only takes 30 seconds to block the /16 range as said, with next to no, if any consequences. I'm not talking about them individually as I don't believe anybody has provided an accurate, complete list of cache servers. Unless you happen to have it (the one above isn't correct any more from what I can see)?

Unless I misread your earlier post?

- GP
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I was replying to the first part of your post.

GhostlyPea said:
if it was as simple as finding the correct IPs easily then I'm sure that would have been done by somebody.
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That's fine then, I wasn't clear on what you were saying. What method were you proposing to actually get a positive detection on one of the servers? I haven't read up on what people were doing

- GP
 
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