YouTube and traffic management...

Only getting 8KB/s average throughput from youtube videos during peak times for the last couple of days which is ridiculous have to buffer a short clip for an hour just to play it. Theres absolutely no accountability at BT - they could throttle it down to 1KB/s and we could do nothing but change ISP if your lucky enough.

Been streaming through fine for me the past couple of days, just tested it just now and the video started to play almost instantly.

I have experienced some problems when using the BBC iPlayer via Level 3(high quality), changing over to Akamai (standard quality) worked a treat. Not sure whether its a BT problem or Level 3.

Strangely not having a problem with the iplayer (usually when this happens I have issues with both youtube and iplayer and other video sites)... its deffinatly traffic managment related tho as it goes from fine to almost no throughput at 6pm on the dot and returns to working around 11:30pm to midnight.

and today I'm getting 0.5KB/s from youtube during peak time yay! stupid BT. Yet HTTP is flying along (relatively) at 2Mbit (seems to be hard limited to 240KB/s but thats plenty enough for normal useage) but my ssh connection to my dedi and any video traffic is struggling at 0.5-12KB/s. Looks like they are lumping all that traffic into one over congested channel

Edited by deleted (Wed 10-Dec-08 20:42:34)

I'd like to bump this by saying I have exactly the same problem. BitTorrent and the videos (not the site itself) on Youtube download at a max 8kb/s during the evening. Later on in the evening it goes up to 30kb/s and then after midnight it goes back to normal speeds.

Throttling isn't rare nowadays, but 8kb/s is ridiculous. Are more people getting this or is it just me and the OP missing something huge?

I've been getting 0.5Mbit on youtube the last few days during peak times thank goodness - atleast the normal res will stream ok tho HD won't.

No its not just you

spoke too soon - back to less than 8KB/s today on almost anything except HTTP - this is getting rediculous.

Infact for the record:

HTTP: 1.95Mbit/s (atleast thats useable)
SSL: 2.45KB/s (half the speed of dialup)
COH Updater: 2.0KB/s
Youtube (videos): 5.45KB/s
iplayer (multiple streams): 1.5Mbit/s (less than HTTP but useable atm)
Spotify: ~5.5KB/s (needs approx 256Kbit)

Looks like BT have decided they don't want anyone who does anything other than email and light web-browsing.

Edited by deleted (Tue 30-Dec-08 21:10:28)

Have you tried Speedbit Video Accelerator ?

I find it makes quite a big difference, I think it open multiple connections to the videos, so even if you are limited to 8k it opens multiple 8k streams maybe ?

http://www.videoaccelerator.com

I'm not associated with it, and I think its spyware free, might be worth trying.

its not just video thats affected and in this case it won't make multiple ~8Kb/s connections it would just share the ~8Kb/s with each connection.

Edited by deleted (Wed 31-Dec-08 15:00:37)