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So how does that work, exactly? Presumably someone pays XO to act as a CDN, but is it Google or Virgin (Or someone else in the chain)?

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I used open DNS and it seems to have cured the youtbube problems i was having.

https://store.opendns.com/setup/oper...stem/windows-7

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Good question.

Generally CDN's pay the ISP for eyeballs. 80% of data is video these days and most goes downstream to the user. CDN's get paid by the likes of YouTube and Netflix, though Netflix has its own CDN OpenConnect now which they try to route most of their traffic through.

I haven't seen XO used as a CDN for myself in Scotland, though some users might be CDN'd differently and even on a per-video basis. Which makes it complex to say exactly what's happening without some diagnostic info.

Settlement-free peering seems to be more common in europe, with Internet eXchanges.

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It's interesting to note that most of the money flows downstream towards the user until it gets to the ISP's. Really we should be paid for using the internet as it's mostly advertising based, which is how the companies at the top of the chain make their money ; see google search as a classic example.

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Time Warner Cable: No, we don’t throttle YouTube — it’s all about peering:
http://gigaom.com/2013/06/17/time-wa...about-peering/

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Blocking 206.111.0.0/16 really does seem to have helped here too.

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guys try youtube high definition addon, if using firefox.

set 720p as default, then see if helps.

I found this stops the lame set to auto google is trying to push now and if no 720p is available it at least falls back to 360p instead of auto. As even on BT youtube has been funny last week or so due to this stupid auto bitrate option.

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iPlayer seems to be broken now. YouTube is degrading again, after more or less working for a couple of weeks.

We just seem to be stuck in a cycle of failed upgrades that don't really fix the problem and become totally inadequate within a few weeks maximum.

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Not here, folks.

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Iplayer and YouTube were flying for me last night :)

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Same here as my partner uses it a lot.

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:lol::lol::lol::lol:

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:LOL: