VM and Youtube, yet again
 

Posting this because yet again I am disgusted at how incredibly slow Youtube is on my VM (supposedly) 10Mb connection.

At my friends house, he can buffer a 10 minute video in 2 minutes or so on a 1Mb AOL connection, yet on my 10Mb it takes almost 20 minutes?! (timed: 19 minutes 57 seconds to load a 9 minute 23 second video)

Since the time it takes to buffer the whole video is greater than the length of the actual video, I have to load the page and pause the video for a bit while I wait for it to buffer enough so that I can watch it the whole way through without it stopping and starting.

So what the hell is VM's problem?

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Speetest:

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:47:52 GMT

1st 512K took 5937 ms = 86.2 KB/sec, approx 710 Kbps, 0.69 Mbps
2nd 512K took 7750 ms = 66.1 KB/sec, approx 545 Kbps, 0.53 Mbps
3rd 512K took 4094 ms = 125.1 KB/sec, approx 1031 Kbps, 1.01 Mbps
4th 512K took 9140 ms = 56 KB/sec, approx 461 Kbps, 0.45 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 687 Kbps, 0.67 Mbps


Some other speedtests:

[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

And a download directly from VM:

http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/2081/dlix4.png

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

Im on 8Mbps VM and it takes blummin ages to buffer a video on youtube. The best way is put it into full screen or lower the quality of the video by right clicking on it.

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

the last couple of weeks I've found that many youtube videos won't even load at all. Well, perhaps they are doing but I can't be bothered waiting 10 minutes.

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

yours is faster than mine

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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:03:41 UTC

1st 512K took 15422 ms = 33.2 KB/sec, approx 274 Kbps, 0.27 Mbps
2nd 512K took 16516 ms = 31 KB/sec, approx 255 Kbps, 0.25 Mbps
3rd 512K took 11797 ms = 43.4 KB/sec, approx 358 Kbps, 0.35 Mbps
4th 512K took 16546 ms = 30.9 KB/sec, approx 255 Kbps, 0.25 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 286 Kbps, 0.28 Mbps

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Im ment to have 8meg

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

think that may be a Youtube issue - I found that last night on some videos and I'm on Sky BB. :)

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

No you are meant to have upto 8 meg depending on distance from the exchange.

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

Surely it shouldn't be as low as that though...

Either ways my problem seems to be with all streaming video. It took almost an hour to buffer a 37mb video yesterday. What the hell is the problem?

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

Well im on 4mb and aint got any probs, are you letting it play/buffer at the same time?, i usually start to play the video then pause it, it buffers a hell of a lot faster then play/buffer at the same time. Give it a whirl.

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

Sometimes it helps if you go through google video instead.

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

I pause it and let it buffer for ages.

LOL speedtest from inside VM's network, I think something is wrong here.

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/5741/lolxf0.png

Where is my other 9.7Mbit?!

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

I'm on 20M and get that speed but youtube still crawls or bits of it do.

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

Today it seems to be particularly bad.
Refreshing the page sometimes kicks the video into action.

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

Youtube has gone crap. A % of the clips refuse to even load in Opera, it's not Opera as most of them work fine. I am always having issues with buffering, so slow it's stupid. Don't go off speed test sites, they are just as bad. I just tried one and it took seven different servers just to hit anything near 10Mbit (I am on 20Mbit)

Try this.

http://stage6.divx.com/videos?order=...&cid=DP0000007

This is one of the fastest sites I have seen. The Alex Gaudino - Destination music video buffered 120Mb or so in about 40secs. It topped out at 1.8Mb/s.

So I know the connection is fine.

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

Is it only youtube you have a problem with?, try google video, metacafe, Killsome time etc

Re: VM and Youtube, yet again
 

I on the on the "2mb" broadband service and off peak youtube is fine (still kinda slow sometimes) but as soon as its peak time, videos take 25-20 mins to fully stream.

Whats amazing is if I go to myspace tv and stream vids, no matter what time i do it, on peak or off peak, all videos buffer incredibly fast, in mere seconds.

Youtube needs improving?