VM and Youtube, yet again

janipewter · 15-07-2007, 14:49

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:

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And a download directly from VM:

Callumpy · 15-07-2007, 14:50

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.

N00N00 · 15-07-2007, 14:54

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.

Callumpy · 15-07-2007, 15:06

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

Shaun · 15-07-2007, 17:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by N00N00

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.

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

15-07-2007, 18:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Callumpy

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

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

janipewter · 16-07-2007, 14:41

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?

stu8975 · 16-07-2007, 15:07

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.

16-07-2007, 15:20

Sometimes it helps if you go through google video instead.

janipewter · 16-07-2007, 19:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by stu8975

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.

I pause it and let it buffer for ages.

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

Where is my other 9.7Mbit?!

tweetiepooh · 18-07-2007, 10:22

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

Halcyon · 18-07-2007, 10:47

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

kingbuxton · 18-07-2007, 11:10

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.

stu8975 · 18-07-2007, 13:21

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

EasyChat · 18-07-2007, 17:45

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?