YouTube streaming failures

Mon Feb 13 02:42:48 UTC 2017

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Jay Farrell <jayfar at jayfar.com> wrote:

> Downdetector shows a big spike in reports for youtube in the past several
> hours.
>
> http://downdetector.com/status/youtube
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 9:06 PM, Christopher Morrow <
> morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> verizon wired, comcast (on a mobile device) both work in IAD's area.
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick at ianai.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I cannot stream on AppleTV or iPhone. Works on my laptop.
>> >
>> > Comcast, Massachusetts.
>> >
>> > --
>> > TTFN,
>> > patrick
>> >
>> > > On Feb 12, 2017, at 8:08 PM, Brett A Mansfield <
>> > lists at silverlakeinternet.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > I'm seeing this as well, but only on Apple and Linux products. Seems
>> to
>> > be working fine on Windows.
>> > >
>> > > Thank you,
>> > > Brett A Mansfield
>> > >
>> > >> On Feb 12, 2017, at 5:30 PM, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> We are getting many customer reports of YouTube streaming failures.
>> The
>> > content directory and search work, but attempts to view videos results
>> in
>> > "something went wrong, click to try again" error messages. We've
>> reproduced
>> > the problem on AT&T, Level3, Frontier, Cox and Comast networks. We are
>> also
>> > seeing it on cellular data connections, which tends to rule out geo-IP
>> > errors. Is anyone else seeing this?
>> > >>
>> > >> -mel beckman
>> >
>> >
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