Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Fibre-Br...ighlight/false

Have noticed the last few days youtube being crappy during peak hours, can see my response on the 4th page of the above thread on the sky forum for detail

This does indeed present us with an interesting situation, Sky having the same issues as VM, as was mentioned when Sky was faced with similar problems a few months back (mass exchange congestion) it was more how the ISP dealed with the problem, and in that case around 70 exchanges had capacity added within 5 weeks of the fault being raised (i.e. far better than Virgin) - hopefully Sky will shine yet again and give us a quick turnaround on this one

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

Do Sky have a youtube CDN or just a dedicated peering link to them?

Not had any issues myself, with or without using a VPN

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

I've noticed no issues.

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

As I mentioned in my post on the Sky forum, they peer directly to youtube/google

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

No problem here and I've only got 15mb

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

What does everyone see when they follow this link
http://redirector.c.youtube.com/report_mapping

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

Why do you ask?

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

Was trying to figure out what it shows, sometimes it shows me a youtube server and sometimes it shows a time

---------- Post added at 23:09 ---------- Previous post was at 23:09 ----------

btw - its what sky are asking for in diagnosis of the youtube issues

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

i get my IP

86.**.***.** => virginmedia-lhr3

edit, just read your last bit and i am on Virgin so i guess it means nothing. :)

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

No, that does help, I was getting "bskyb-servername" this afternoon, but now i get

151.x.x.x => lhr07s13

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

Looks like the redirector page shows what CDN you get directed to if an ISP redirects traffic to their own servers. If there is no re-routing then I believe you get the lhr07s13 type server/farm but you see your isp's name, obvious the requests go to their own CDN

From Sky connection: x.x.x.x => bskyb-bhx1

From UK VPN IP :lhr14s15

From VPN in NewYork: x.x.x.x => lax04s14 [u]

So if you got different results I would assume that you usually get redirected to sky's cdn but on the odd request you go direct.

Now the [u] part is going to bug me lol

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

I get my IP address (VM).

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

And next to it?

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

I get x.x.x.x => virginmedia-man3

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

It would be worth all the virgin media youtube sufferers going to that url to see if there is some pattern that can help them. I would have thought Virgin would have used this method with their customers to help resolve the problem quicker, rather than asking for traceroutes....

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

=> virginmedia-lba1

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

=> virginmedia-lhr2

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

virginmedia-man3

Cheers

Grim

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

virginmedia-lba1

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

I get the following, with or without using my VPN

My Current IP => fra02s13

That said I have edited my Windows Host's file as below, and I have no problems with YouTube buffering any longer.

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost

127.0.0.1 62.252.170.140
127.0.0.1 62.252.170.141
127.0.0.1 62.252.170.142
127.0.0.1 62.252.170.143
127.0.0.1 62.252.170.144
127.0.0.1 62.252.170.145
127.0.0.1 62.252.170.146
127.0.0.1 62.252.170.147
127.0.0.1 62.252.44.12
127.0.0.1 62.253.3.75
127.0.0.1 62.253.3.76
127.0.0.1 62.253.3.77
127.0.0.1 62.253.3.78
127.0.0.1 62.253.3.79
127.0.0.1 62.253.3.80
127.0.0.1 62.253.3.81
127.0.0.1 62.253.3.82
127.0.0.1 62.253.3.83
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.0
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.1
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.2
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.3
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.4
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.5
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.6
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.7
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.8
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.9
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.10
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.11
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.12
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.13
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.14
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.15
127.0.0.1 62.252.0.16

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx => bskyb-lcy3

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

I get different results different times of the day

bskyb-lcy3
bskyb-lcy1
lhr07s13

and have had a couple of others similar to the bottom one (presumably direct to youtube)

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

Sky ADSL connection

**.**.**.*** => bskyb-lcy1

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

Can someone please post instructions to change my hostfile to the above? I want to see if it fixes the youtube issue for me - thank you!

EDIT: I get => virginmedia-lhr2

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

Obviously a VM customer infiltrating the Sky section! :D

You need to run notepad as administrator (right click on notepad and choose run as admin) and then open the hosts file, edit it and save it + reboot. hosts file is usually in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Fibre-Br...ht/true#M13022

Fault reported 11/06, fault fixed 18/06 - 1 week turnaround

Once again, well done sky :)

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

I get:
90.xx.xx.xx => bskyb-lba2

only on 5mb but not getting any buffering issues.

Re: Sky taking a leaf out of VMs book Re:Youtube
 

The issues only lasted for a week, as i mentioned above the fix date was 10 days ago