Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?
 

A year or so ago (slightly longer?) VM got themselves in a load of trouble with a load of issues with Youtube playback for its customers - something to do with their caching of Youtube videos if I recall correctly.

I have noticed of late that my Youtube videos are not loading as quickly as before and yes horror of horrors the buffering has returned. Did VM ever really resolve the caching issue?

As a test I always try a Youtube proxy...and yes of course the videos load several times faster and never buffer - ever.

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Not noticed any issues personally, but it was somewhat hit and miss previously as well. Been streaming 1080p content quite a bit lately and I haven't had buffering troubles at all.

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I have experienced a lot of YouTube buffering etc - on 200 Mb/s VM business service with 5 fixed IP.

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Youtube performance has been intermittently poor here over the past couple of weeks after 6pm and much of the day during the weekends. The unis and colleges are still out on summer break though so the students will be at home hammering the residential broadband networks instead of their campus ;)

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This has been mentioned elsewhere in the past few days so I think it is fair to say there are enough people experiencing this to think there may be an issue.
I am one of them that has also experienced this.

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yep, I'm in that camp. Mentioned it in a post on the forum as well, but they don't seem to be getting enough traction - instead being dotted about. Need to get a bit of a master thread going and enough of us posting in it for anyone to notice it

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Noticed it too on the 300 Homeworks, stuff loads faster on 4G than it does over my 300 Meg Virgin connection....

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You can't get 200mb with 5 static IPs at the moment?

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I have noticed it go down hill big time over the last 2 weeks. Any video I try to play takes about 20 seconds to buffer before it plays and that is any time of day any day of the week.

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Same here to, but if i use a vpn it fixes it

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Part of a pilot group (not under NDA)

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Not been around here for ages but just wanted to say I've also been getting the return of buffering on YouTube videos again..

Everything else seems fine and like others it's been happening for about 3-5 weeks now and seems to be getting ignored by VM again despite plenty of threads scattered about the community forum about this..

Not time or connection type dependant and goes away if I use a different connection such as my folks non VM one.

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No youtube issues here in Swansea.

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Still not seeing any issues here, but I wasn't really affected last time either. Disappointed in Virgin :(

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the buffering problems I have been experiencing over the last 2 weeks have cleared up this week and everything is back normal. Every HD video starting playing immediately.

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Still same issues here for me in Bristol.

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Same

Was okay yesterday but today it's back to same old song and buffering dance.

:erm:

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Also noticing buffering of Youtube but not with the classic Ping monitor "shape" that we have seen on previous occasions.

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Still issues here as of yesterday

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I think I am beginning to see some of this as well. It's not problematic, but whereas previously everything would immediately jump to 1080p, I've had the odd video take a few seconds to start and then start at 360p or some such.

Having said that, manually selecting 1080p still seems to work. Might have just been a peak time bump.

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I'd also like to chime in with issues of YouTube buffering. I click on a video, the wheel spins for what seems like an eternity then it starts streaming at the lowest quality possible.

It's becoming quite frustrating. Does anyone have any temporary fixes I can try besides from using a VPN?

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I had the same problem when the thread started a couple of weeks ago but it was fixed within a few days and is fine now.

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Been having this problem on and off for a while too.
I've noticed it only seems to affect the 2.4g wifi signal - 5g works fine. Sadly not all my devices have 5g WiFi though :confused:

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Still getting this problem, spoke to VM CS who just asked me to do the usual reboot stuff, then offered to send a tech out which I refused as it would be a waste of time.

Is there any other way we can get someone "higher up" to look into this?

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I downloaded the WiFi Analyzer app and found two other VM routers using the same channel as mine - I guess setting the channel to Auto does something different to what I expected. Manually setting the channel seemed to sort out the YouTube problems - so I guess my problem may be a different one to others.

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Getting really annoying now. Youtube buffering is appalling. What's the best way to bypass the cache servers that VM use to see if that's the problem?

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Mine had been ok for about a week but I noticed last night it was back to being unwatchable again.

Not congestion as speedtests shows the full 211/12

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try a different web browser ????
firefox for me takes 30 seconds to run a video but Chrome is instant

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Chrome is my default browser. I basically see the same with Firefox and Edge too.

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My issues are with Chrome as well, browser doesn't seem to make a difference

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I get this on my phone YouTube app as well. If I disconnect from Wifi and use my 4G signal, reloading the video will bring it straight up.

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Virgin cache Youtube content so set up your browser to disable DASH and that will take care of desktop and laptop. Also can block the caching servers via your router.

I block all URLs with r1.sn-8pgbpohxqp5-h5os in the address and it seems to work for my Ios devices.

Found this in the Virgin media forum BTW.

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Doesn't disabling DASH remove some higher quality options on youtube? Will have to give this a go when I get home, cheers for the heads up

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I haven't had any more issues with YT lately.

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Looks to me like our old friend the peering bump is coming back. It's all been flat on the TBB ping monitor until Tuesday this week and now the evening bump is back just like before. So has something been happening that's been too subtle to show on TBB before this week but still enough to impact some users, like me, and now it's getting up steam for a full blown issue again?

I've put some snapshots in the Think Broadband Ping Monitor Results thread.

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Could be local congestion.

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Sorry to bump this, but is anyone else having issues with Youtube buffering again? I've tried to play multiple videos and they all buffer for ages, even on a low quality setting.

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Yes it's all fallen apart up here this afternoon, within the past hour in fact.

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Seems to have improved a bit. Vidoes are starting in HD, as the auto setting now, was struggling with even 240p before.

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Yep issues here again too

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Ive been having issues for the last couple of days especially with 4k video`s iam on 300 mbps

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Couldn't even get a 1080p video to load at all last night, waited a good 10 minutes for it (while we did other things!)

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I have always had strange issues with YouTube on virgin.

Videos seem to play for a few seconds and then stop, never to continue. A reload of the page fixes it, but annoying nonetheless - The same never applies when using my backup BT connection (and that's only a 3/4meg line!)

Fishy indeed...

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I have never really noticed slow buffering on my connection, even back in the pre-50Mb days.

Watching YouTube 1080p, similarly, I have never had problems with slow buffering.

I think I have always been blessed with a good connection, low latency / bufferbloat. My residential area is suburban, but not high density, presumably leading to relatively low congestion.

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Was in Wearside area over the weekend, experienced no buffering, was on a 50Mb connection too.

I hope Baguley area in Manchester isn't affected.

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Since an SNR issue in my area was cleared all is well touch wood.

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I don't remember the last time I had youtube issues.

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I sometimes get the odd buffering but I find this is sunday evenings and the net for me tends to be a little slower during the school holidays

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Anyone else started having issues with youtube?

The video plays for about 5 secs and then it starts buffering for like 30 secs.

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I have had that problrm for the last couple of weeks on 1080p and when you change it down to 480 it works fine

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They are going to get rid of 30 second ads that can't be skipped.

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its not the ads, this happens after the ads, the video plays for a few seconds and then stops and buffers and suddenly jumps along and is fine then.

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There was an issue at one time with VM's CDNs. When you play the video what shows in the task bar? Is it Youtube or a VM CDN?

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not sure will have to check.

says waiting for s.youtube.com

Also just noticed while it stops it drops the res of the video to minimum. u then have to select max yourself again.

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Do a quick nslookup on YouTube.com - You'll see that everything is diverted to Virgin IP addresses.

I've recently set my main DNS to Google's (8.8.8.8) and this has remedied my YouTube woes. Browsing has been somehwat breezier, also.

You can try this on a single PC to prove a point or set it on your router if you want all LAN devices to go through it.

Tom

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I've not witnessed this since I got my Asus, which would be explained by the above as when I set it up I set it to use Google's DNS rather than Virgin's.