General : Youtube Dead Again

[craigj2k12]

anyone noticed major youtube problems in the last week or so, doesnt seem to be anything local for me, buts its getting so bad i cant load videos just like last time, and not peak congestion its 5am and its either buffer, buffer, buffer, or "an error occurred, please try again later"

[Russ]

Yes I've been getting that and it seems only since I went from 60 to 100Mbps.

[General Maximus]

I haven't noticed anything at all. I have been watching a lot of Honest Trailers in 1080p and haven't had any slow down or buffering issues.

[broadbandking]

I had issues with it all day yesterday, some videos would load some wouldn't

Doesn't seem to bad this morning

[Taf]

There's a ticket (and thread) about it already. I have tried several "solutions" to no avail.

[General Maximus]

how weird, I have just spent 10 mins clicking on random vids and I haven't had any problems loading them at all and they were all 1080p

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I have just done some googling and having a read of the VM forums and there have been an awful lot of posts over the last couple of days regarding youtube probs. For those who want to keep track of the issue the fault reference is F003269887 and the link to the VM forum thread is http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...883530/page/50

Edit, I have just found a 2nd fault reference under the 120mbit section F003280811. From what I have read it does seem to be a regional issue and affecting the west side of the country again which is what happened last time if I remember correctly. It would explain why I am okay atm because I am on the east.

[techguyone]

Yes I've had it too for about 3 days now, stuff won't play, I can see the preview if I move the timeline along, but the display itself is just loading....

Is there an alternative I can use for youtube, that doesn't go through VM

[Kushan]

Try using Hola unblocker or something. Free extension that lets you reroute through another country. Good for viewing US netflix.

Just tried youtube myself and have no problems. The only issue I have, which I always have, is that youtube likes to default to say 480p instead of 720p or 1080p no matter what my settings are set to. If I manually click on 1080p it still loads quickly, but I have to do that for EVERY video and I have yet to find a decent browser extension to do this that actually works.

[heero_yuy]

Don't seem to have any issues here but I guess we count as east.

[horseman]

Originally Posted by heero_yuy

Don't seem to have any issues here but I guess we count as east.

Your probably on Lancing CMTS but in any event you're routed via Brighton core and thus likely to be using the Basildon CDN?
Traceroute to "Watchlive.channel4.com" and penultimate hop should contain "....basl-icdn...", or perhaps not?

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by horseman

Your probably on Lancing CMTS but in any event you're routed via Brighton core and thus likely to be using the Basildon CDN?
Traceroute to "Watchlive.channel4.com" and penultimate hop should contain "....basl-icdn...", or perhaps not?

Here's the trace:

trace.jpg

[Taf]

From Cardiff where there are problems...

tracert watchlive.channel4.com

Tracing route to a978.g2.akamai.net [62.252.173.33]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms routerlogin.net [192.168.0.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
6 13 ms 12 ms 15 ms m289-mp1-cvx1c.lan.ntl.com [62.252.173.33]

Trace complete.

[Kushan]

Tracing route to a978.g2.akamai.net [62.252.168.178]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.1.1 
  2    11 ms    11 ms    15 ms  10.93.144.1 
  3     9 ms    10 ms     8 ms  bagu-core-2a-xe-132-0.network.virginmedia.net [80.5.167.5] 
  4    11 ms     8 ms     8 ms  bagu-core-2b-ae1-0.network.virginmedia.net [80.5.161.250] 
  5    15 ms    11 ms    14 ms  leed-bb-1b-ae7-0.network.virginmedia.net [80.5.161.245] 
  6    17 ms    11 ms    13 ms  leed-icdn-1-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.254.42.158] 
  7    14 ms    13 ms    13 ms  m178-mp1-cvx1b.lan.ntl.com [62.252.168.178] 

Trace complete.

No problems here.

[greeninferno]

Originally Posted by Kushan

Try using Hola unblocker or something. Free extension that lets you reroute through another country. Good for viewing US netflix.

Just tried youtube myself and have no problems. The only issue I have, which I always have, is that youtube likes to default to say 480p instead of 720p or 1080p no matter what my settings are set to. If I manually click on 1080p it still loads quickly, but I have to do that for EVERY video and I have yet to find a decent browser extension to do this that actually works.

I've used this without any problems always plays the highest resolution

http://barisderin.com/?p=1113

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Originally Posted by craigj2k12

anyone noticed major youtube problems in the last week or so, doesnt seem to be anything local for me, buts its getting so bad i cant load videos just like last time, and not peak congestion its 5am and its either buffer, buffer, buffer, or "an error occurred, please try again later"

i saw problems for the first time in ages , on friday i think it was

just refused to load the video completely been ok since.

[Kushan]

Originally Posted by greeninferno

I've used this without any problems always plays the highest resolution

http://barisderin.com/?p=1113[COLOR="Silver"]

Yeah I've tried this one a few times and for some reason never seems to work, no matter how I configure it.