[174102] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best US Tunnelbroker for Youtube
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Shea)
Mon Aug 25 08:52:37 2014
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:52:28 -0400
From: Ryan Shea <ryanshea@google.com>
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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I expect it would work (ignoring the obvious reasons this is likely not to
lead to bliss) - but not for the reasons expected. I get a AAAA back from
screen.yahoo.com, but the actual video stream (which I am largely guessing
is the "big" content I see in iftop coming from yahoo's CDN) comes over v4.
At least it is better than vimeo's, A-only.
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
wrote:
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>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Ryan Shea <ryanshea@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Just one man's experience, but my YouTube performance over my Hurricane
>> Electric tunnel has been strikingly poor lately - so much so that I was
>> thinking of squashing v6 in my house entirely. Looking for your
>> experiences/thoughts on whether cutting over to SixXS or Routinghouse
>> could
>> be a path to 1080p cat video bliss instead.
>>
>>
> You might also consider trying alternate
> sources of video streams such as
> screen.yahoo.com to see if your
> cat video bliss might be better
> fulfilled through a different source
> than Youtube, if indeed the problem
> lies between you and Youtube.
>
> Matt
>
>
