Virgin Media & YouTube - Throttling.

BuZ

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Anyone think Virgin are doing it?

I have a strange and very obvious view of evidence they're throttling YT.

Slow buffer times. Video time-outs. Mainly within the evenings.

Virgin Media's typical service.

LOL
 
BuZ said:
Anyone think Virgin are doing it?

I have a strange and very obvious view of evidence they're throttling YT.

Slow buffer times. Video time-outs. Mainly within the evenings.

Virgin Media's typical service.

LOL
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Possibly not throttling but general over-subscription. Have you tried monitoring your connection for jitter/packet loss (sure signs of congestion on your connection)?
 
FrenchTart said:
Possibly not throttling but general over-subscription. Have you tried monitoring your connection for jitter/packet loss (sure signs of congestion on your connection)?
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Have done using broadbandchoices.co.uk and also using command prompt.

Also used Pingtest.net and Speedtest.net.

Virgin seem to be doing something with YT as my speeds are 20Mb/s and 1Mb/s as advertised and needed. Actually, they're over that (21Mb/s and 1.14Mb/s).

Unless the tests are inaccurate.
 
haven't VM had ongoing issues with youtube and various other sites for a while - Im sure I can remember reading about peering issues somewhere
 
edgedemon said:
haven't VM had ongoing issues with youtube and various other sites for a while - Im sure I can remember reading about peering issues somewhere
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Yes your correct,sometimes it's fine on youtube and some days its not,im fine with it as i have never been able to watch something despite the problems.
 
BuZ said:
Virtual Private Network.

In what sense will a VPN help?
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If VM are managing specific types of traffic i.e. identifying streaming media and applying throttling then by routing your traffic via a VPN the traffic going through VM's network wouldn't appear as streaming media but as a secure tunnel and may not have traffic management applied - unless they blanket throttle SSL type traffic to.
 
VM's Network cannot handle the current setup. I wonder for the future with 1Gb/s. lol
 
up until about 6 months ago i had serious problems with youtube for about a year.

I struggled to run videos smoothly at 480p let alone anything else, but it seems to be fine recently, so i cant really say what the problem it :<
 
Confused said:
Yup, as soon as 6pm comes you can forget about trying to watch YouTube.
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Just signed up for Virgin 60MB cable, is youtube really that poor? Is there a cooling off period for Virgin Media?

Its a 12 month contract and if the service is poor, then I don't want to be stuck with it.
 
FerretBoy said:
It's not throttling, they have a cache server to save bandwidth, but it often has issues.
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This.

You can force Youtube to load from Youtube and not Virgin's caches.

Virgin just use a proxy from the normal site.

Load Youtube from the HTTPS site, not the normal, and your loading from them, not Virgin.

Alternatively, your can add a ?1 to the end of the url.. eg:

ww.youtube.com/watch?v=3g8xrpjcT4o?1
 
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