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Old 14-09-2016, 12:52   #1
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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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Old 14-09-2016, 14:17   #2
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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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Old 15-09-2016, 01:34   #3
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

I have experienced a lot of YouTube buffering etc - on 200 Mb/s VM business service with 5 fixed IP.
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Old 15-09-2016, 13:58   #4
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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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Old 15-09-2016, 15:56   #5
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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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Old 15-09-2016, 16:32   #6
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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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Old 15-09-2016, 17:13   #7
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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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Old 15-09-2016, 21:45   #8
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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I have experienced a lot of YouTube buffering etc - on 200 Mb/s VM business service with 5 fixed IP.
You can't get 200mb with 5 static IPs at the moment?
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Old 16-09-2016, 00:13   #9
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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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Old 16-09-2016, 00:34   #10
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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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.
Same here to, but if i use a vpn it fixes it
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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You can't get 200mb with 5 static IPs at the moment?
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Old 20-09-2016, 21:46   #12
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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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Old 20-09-2016, 22:01   #13
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No youtube issues here in Swansea.
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Old 21-09-2016, 09:31   #14
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

Still not seeing any issues here, but I wasn't really affected last time either. Disappointed in Virgin
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Re: Youtube issues. Is this still a thing?

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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