[152826] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: YouTube Video Streaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Fri May 18 04:47:18 2012
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: Thames <thames@viewqwest.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 08:48:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <BA368BB3EE598C479AAA581FCC5D70189B4C73E0C2@H-EXCHANGE.viewqwest.sg>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I would like to get some input for the following problem we face with
> YouTube video streaming.
> We are an ISP in Singapore and peer with Google at Equinix and SOX
> (Singapore Open Exchange), For about 2 weeks we have been facing choppy
> streaming or continuous buffering on various YouTube videos. These
> problem videos are streamed at HD or original quality.
> Our troubleshooting narrow down to those bad videos being streamed to
> us from outside Singapore. We contacted Google support, they are
> confused too, as why we are served from a cache server in Poland on one
> of the videos. The case has been escalated within Google, unfortunately
> no update from them since.
>=20
> Not all YouTube videos are bad through us, some 45 minutes videos can
> fully buffered within seconds on HD or original quality, of course the
> IP we streamed for these videos are through our local peering with
> Google.
I have seen similar issues, some videos work fine but others seem to stop =
after either a few minutes or half way through. The same behaviour is seen=
on various computers, the same video stops at the same place.
I didn't have time and could not be bothered to look into it at the time a=
nd kind of put it down to one of those things that will be fixed later.=20=
So I'd be really interested in what the outcome is!
--
Leigh Porter
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