Youtube throttling (might be old news to some)
Geminosity
:3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
:3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
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Heya folks,
My youtubes has been a bit sluggish as of late and today, after it being exceptionally bad, I googled potential problems up.
Interestingly, it seems some ISPs are throttling the heck out of sites like youtube and vimeo and so I followed a guide to firewall the IP that was doing it and voila: youtube now loads considerably quicker for me
Here's the guide: http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/time-warner-cable-sucks-for-youtube-twitchtv/ (there's a windows link near the bottom of the article, i think the directions on that page are for the MAC but it explains the problem in more detail here so that's why i linked it
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Again, it might be old news for some but it's news to me so I thought I'd share it
My youtubes has been a bit sluggish as of late and today, after it being exceptionally bad, I googled potential problems up.
Interestingly, it seems some ISPs are throttling the heck out of sites like youtube and vimeo and so I followed a guide to firewall the IP that was doing it and voila: youtube now loads considerably quicker for me
Here's the guide: http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/time-warner-cable-sucks-for-youtube-twitchtv/ (there's a windows link near the bottom of the article, i think the directions on that page are for the MAC but it explains the problem in more detail here so that's why i linked it
)Again, it might be old news for some but it's news to me so I thought I'd share it
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TWC sucks.
I was totally bamboozled as to why my 4MB/s fibre optic connection could download a Steam game in 30mins but youtube couldn't stream in HD real time. Will give this a try!
Yes, this is for Mac. Linux guys should be able to adapt it though without a problem, for obvious reasons.
Now I just have to wonder if they're doing the same with content being SENT to Twitch; would explain why I've had to back off my streaming settings so severely to get a consistent stream without (many) frame-drops.
(edit) For those who don't want to bother translating it, here's the two you need; trying to figure out if this will work for NAT/ipmasq, but it's been a very long time since I've hashed on table rulesets.
sudo iptables -A INPUT -s 173.194.55.0/24 -j DROP
sudo iptables -A INPUT -s 206.111.0.0/16 -j DROP
I only linked the mac one because it has a link to the windows one on it and explains what's going on roughly