Time Warner Cable YouTube throttling

Wed Mar 6 20:30:45 UTC 2013

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen at network1.net> wrote:
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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:
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> Block 206.111.0.0/16 at the router.
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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.
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> Trying to communicate this to tech support results in the typical "Derrr, what?"
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> Does anyone at Time Warner care to comment on WTF?
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>
> thanks,
> -Randy
>