Time Warner Cable YouTube throttling

Thu Mar 7 00:37:46 UTC 2013

I don't think it's just Time Warner. Definitely looks like XO. I have
Verizon FiOS and it was pretty bad for me as well (not sure if it still is
since I'm not home right now). There's also atleast two threads in the
Verizon FiOS section on Broadband Reports:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28027601-Horrible-youtube-speeds
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28071070-How-to-Reddit-YouTube-firewall-rule-with-MI424wr

Derek

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Rick Coloccia <coloccia at geneseo.edu> wrote:

> I'd like to help, too, I'm from a TWC business class site with 650 Mbps
> bandwidth and still regularly poor performance with YouTube.
>
> -Rick
>
> Sent from my iPhone 4S
>
> On Mar 6, 2013, at 4:10 PM, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen at network1.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Randy Carpenter
> >>> <rcarpen at 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? :)
> >>
> >> I'll be happy to help troubleshoot in any way I can.
> >
> > excellent.. I'll arrange my ducks, let's chat offlist?
> >
>
>