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Time Warner Cable YouTube throttling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Carpenter)
Wed Mar 6 15:12:12 2013
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:11:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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We have recently been having some serious speed issues with YouTube on our home connections, which are all Time Warner Cable.
Some searching on forums and such revealed a work around:
Block 206.111.0.0/16 at the router.
This makes speeds go from ~1 Mb/s to the full connection speed (30 Mb/s in my case). It appears that TWC is forcing traffic to this netblock over a congested link, or otherwise throttling it.
Trying to communicate this to tech support results in the typical "Derrr, what?"
Does anyone at Time Warner care to comment on WTF?
thanks,
-Randy
