Time Warner Cable YouTube throttling

Min qiu.min98 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 02:25:34 UTC 2013


3 traces all indicated the last hub are 80~100ms faster than the
second last hub.  Interesting.

Min

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Derek Ivey <derek at derekivey.com> wrote:
> I just got home and tested with quite a few 1080p videos. No issues over my
> Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel. I did notice frequent stops to buffer on my
> FiOS IPv4 connection. I have a 50 Mbps down connection and don't even come
> close to maxing it when watching Youtube videos.
>
> Here are a few traceroutes:
>
> [2.1-BETA0][root at pfsense]/root(1): traceroute
> r19---sn-p5qlsm7d.c.youtube.com
> traceroute to r19.sn-p5qlsm7d.c.youtube.com (208.117.251.184), 64 hops max,
> 40 byte packets
>  1  L100.HRBGPA-VFTTP-12.verizon-gni.net (98.117.0.1)  1.222 ms 1.348 ms
> 0.834 ms
>  2  G10-0-8-112.HRBGPA-LCR-01.verizon-gni.net (130.81.184.148) 2.839 ms
> 2.589 ms  2.443 ms
>  3  P12-0-0.HRBGPA-LCR-02.verizon-gni.net (130.81.27.185)  14.880 ms  14.614
> ms  14.698 ms
>  4  so-12-1-0-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.28.254) 14.647 ms
> 14.696 ms  14.552 ms
>  5  0.xe-3-1-1.BR1.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.37.141)  15.027 ms 15.004 ms
> 15.064 ms
>  6  te9-2-0d0.cir1.ashburn-va.us.xo.net (206.111.0.201)  38.517 ms  36.033
> ms  34.816 ms
>  7  216.156.8.189.ptr.us.xo.net (216.156.8.189)  31.958 ms  30.994 ms
> 29.194 ms
>  8  209.48.42.86 (209.48.42.86)  124.931 ms  126.117 ms  124.303 ms
>  9  208.117.251.184 (208.117.251.184)  26.483 ms  27.792 ms 27.974 ms
>
> [2.1-BETA0][root at pfsense]/root(2): traceroute
> r15---sn-p5qlsm76.c.youtube.com
> traceroute to r15.sn-p5qlsm76.c.youtube.com (208.117.251.148), 64 hops max,
> 40 byte packets
>  1  L100.HRBGPA-VFTTP-12.verizon-gni.net (98.117.0.1)  1.077 ms 0.863 ms
> 0.968 ms
>  2  G10-0-8-112.HRBGPA-LCR-01.verizon-gni.net (130.81.184.148) 2.429 ms
> 2.265 ms  2.456 ms
>  3  P12-0-0.HRBGPA-LCR-02.verizon-gni.net (130.81.27.185)  14.788 ms  14.666
> ms  14.643 ms
>  4  so-12-1-0-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.28.254) 14.591 ms
> 14.479 ms  16.041 ms
>  5  0.xe-10-0-0.BR2.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.38.165)  15.007 ms 15.109 ms
> 14.975 ms
>  6  144.232.8.209 (144.232.8.209)  187.038 ms  115.363 ms  117.669 ms
>  7  sl-st31-ash-0-4-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.28.6)  116.263 ms
>     sl-st31-ash-0-8-0-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.1.19)  116.491 ms
>     sl-st31-ash-0-4-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.28.6)  116.934 ms
>  8  sl-googl10-584821-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.205.34)  122.521 ms  122.780
> ms  121.535 ms
>  9  208.117.251.148 (208.117.251.148)  33.669 ms  37.652 ms 38.478 ms
>
> [2.1-BETA0][root at pfsense]/root(6): traceroute
> r10---sn-p5qlsm7l.c.youtube.com
> traceroute to r10.sn-p5qlsm7l.c.youtube.com (208.117.251.47), 64 hops max,
> 40 byte packets
>  1  L100.HRBGPA-VFTTP-12.verizon-gni.net (98.117.0.1)  1.159 ms 0.831 ms
> 0.806 ms
>  2  G9-0-4-212.HRBGPA-LCR-02.verizon-gni.net (130.81.139.126) 2.396 ms
> 2.435 ms  2.167 ms
>  3  so-12-1-0-0.RES-BB-RTR1.verizon-gni.net (130.81.28.254) 14.497 ms
> 14.767 ms  14.695 ms
>  4  0.xe-11-0-0.BR2.IAD8.ALTER.NET (152.63.38.169)  15.001 ms 15.074 ms
> 15.024 ms
>  5  144.232.8.209 (144.232.8.209)  118.582 ms  116.717 ms  113.669 ms
>  6  sl-st31-ash-0-4-0-3.sprintlink.net (144.232.3.169)  114.433 ms  117.698
> ms
>     sl-st31-ash-0-4-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.28.6)  115.981 ms
>  7  sl-googl10-584821-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.205.34)  123.912 ms  124.402
> ms  125.384 ms
>  8  208.117.251.47 (208.117.251.47)  30.591 ms  30.676 ms  29.528 ms
>
> Derek
>
> On 3/6/2013 8:31 PM, Grant Ridder wrote:
>>
>> Can any one provide traceroutes to youtube to see if there is any
>> correlation between last mile providers?
>>
>> -Grant
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Derek Ivey <derek at derekivey.com
>> <mailto:derek at derekivey.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     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 <mailto: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 <mailto:morrowc.lists at gmail.com>>
>>     > wrote:
>>     >
>>     > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Randy Carpenter
>>     <rcarpen at network1.net <mailto:rcarpen at network1.net>>
>>     > wrote:
>>     > >>
>>     > >> ----- Original Message -----
>>     > >>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Randy Carpenter
>>     > >>> <rcarpen at network1.net <mailto: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 <http://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?
>>     > >
>>     >
>>     >
>>
>>
>




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