[161269] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Time Warner Cable YouTube throttling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Wed Mar 6 15:30:57 2013
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Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:30:45 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net> wrote:
>
> 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 was reported elsewhere... it seems odd, since that's XO space,
not Google and not TWC space. Would you care to engage in some
troubleshooting to help everyone out? :)
> 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
>
