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I watch 360p when videos I can see good enough other times I do 1080P on youtube and I lag even on 360p so is just me that youtube is slow times or are other people getting slow at youtube sometimes to. I watch on wire since my laptop is somewhat broken even than same thing on my laptop sometimes like on the wired desktop.
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and now they've disabled my live chat after the CSR didn't even understand the questions i was asking.
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I just got FiOS 75/35 switching over from Comcast 25/5 and I cannot watch YouTube videos in HD at all. If the video does buffer to HD, the video ends itself automatically and will not allow itself to reload. I never had this problem on Comcast. I have not experienced the Netflix problem yet, but if this continues unresolved as it has over these months for many of you I will simply go back to Comcast. This is beyond preposterous.
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Good article describing the issue of ISP ports and caches - the real heart of the problem is Verizon's greed...
I've had success by rejecting the associated IP addresses in my router as described by user Hubrisnxs and tweaked by user Justidme as posted below...
I can finally watch YouTube after doing this.
Here are instructions for doing it in the Actiontec Router, with Both bad IP address ranges
Log into your FIOS Router
Click Firewall Setting (at top)
Click Yes to proceed
Click Advanced Filtering (on left)
(Under Input) Click Add on the Broadband Connection (Ethernet/Coax) Rules you have setup (either coax or ethernet). You can check which one yours uses by going to My Network (up top) and clicking Network Connections (on left), look for the one that says connected.
Change Source Address to User Defined in the drop down list
Enter a description (i.e. Youtube Throttling)
Click Add under Items
Change Network Object Type to IP Range
Enter 173.194.55.0 in the From IP Address
Enter 173.194.55.255 in the To IP Address
Click Apply
Click Add under Items
Change Network Object Type to IP Range
Enter 206.111.0.0 in the From IP Address
Enter 206.111.0.255 in the To IP Address
Click Apply
Click Apply again
Select Reject under the Operation drop down list
Click Apply
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I've been having problems with YouTube for weeks, and recently my wife has been having problems accessing Facebook. Some video's stream and play fine but others will only play for second or two and then freeze.
I did some speed tests using location-based tests on Speakeasy.net and noticed that my speed was fine to most points around the country except when I ran the test to New York, the results of that test were coming in around 2-3MBS, which made me think that Verizon is having an issue between my location (Pittsburgh, PA) and New York. I have the Quantum service (70Mbs) and my speed between Pgh and NY is usually much faster.
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for the past year or so I haven't been able to watch youtube videos AT ALL whatsoever during SANE hours... I can watch the videos just fine from like 6am to 4pm but during other hours I can't watch them? so I pay god knows how much and I can't watch youtube during peek hours when I'm most likely to want to watch it? I'd quit my service in a second if googling the issue didnt' tell me comcast was just as bad and I've no other alternatives. this is so unreasonable to pay for a service that can't be used.
a couple months ago I thought I got the whole ip block fix working but.... now it seems just as bad as ever, did verizon change all the ip addresses on us? is there a new list of ip address ranges needed?
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@smuggle wrote:for the past year or so I haven't been able to watch youtube videos AT ALL whatsoever during SANE hours... I can watch the videos just fine from like 6am to 4pm but during other hours I can't watch them? so I pay god knows how much and I can't watch youtube during peek hours when I'm most likely to want to watch it? I'd quit my service in a second if googling the issue didnt' tell me comcast was just as bad and I've no other alternatives. this is so unreasonable to pay for a service that can't be used.
a couple months ago I thought I got the whole ip block fix working but.... now it seems just as bad as ever, did verizon change all the ip addresses on us? is there a new list of ip address ranges needed?
No one pays for YouTube unless you are renting movies, or otherwise participating in their Pay to Subscribe program (don't even know if this has seen the light of day yet), or another paid Google service. It's all ad-funded like the rest of Google products.
As for changing/blocking IPs, I suggest against blocking the IPs within Level3's ownership for a few reasons. This is one of them, and Google can change the IPs of the caches, or send you to different caches at any time. They routinely do this.
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{please keep your posts courteous}
So clearly from the above statement Youtube still not working and it has been months now. How can these giant greedy corporations get away with this? **bleep**?
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This sucks because this is a problem that we cannot control. This seems to be a problem that can only be fixed by VZ, Cogent, Google, etc. I'm paying around 100 dollars a month for FiOS and so are other customers. I didn't pay 100 dollars a month for Verizon to be lazy and avaricious. Fix this problem, Verizon. It's been an ongoing issue ever since the end of last year. All Youtube videos for me lately have been playing perfectly in 144p. Not even 360 or 240p. I reccommend everyone to avoid blocking the ip ranges and use a proxy website like www.proxfree.com.
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Add me to the list of Verizon Fios users that can't access youtube. Most of the time the videos won't even buffer or play when the lowest quality setting is selected. I have the 75/35 internet speed plan and after multiple speed tests, I know that speed isn't the issue. I can play videos better on my phone with a 3 bar 3G connection than I can with Verizon Fios at home on my computer. that in itself is pure proof that it is on Verizon/Google's side and not the users.
I don't plan on cancelling service as the speeds for gaming are great and we do a lot of that, but I am VERY disappointed with the lack of communication regarding the youtube streaming issue that has been talked about for nearly a year now.
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See, based on the article, it's contentious company relationships that is causing the problem. One company doesn't want to give money to another company so all the consumers get low performance. It's really agitating to look at it. We didn't cause any of these bad relationships, so why does all the consequences come to the innocent users who use this ISP?
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Verizon is definitely trhottling Youtube, there's no question about that. If you use a decent proxy you'll get a decent Youtube. Verizon will deny this is happening and it's sad and sickening we can't do anything about it.
So to everybody reading this thread, don't get fooled, Verizon throttles your connection.
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@elclanrs wrote:Verizon is definitely trhottling Youtube, there's no question about that. If you use a decent proxy you'll get a decent Youtube. Verizon will deny this is happening and it's sad and sickening we can't do anything about it.
So to everybody reading this thread, don't get fooled, Verizon throttles your connection.
Read the article posted only a few messages earlier. No its not throttling your connection but just letting the connections between them and others overload. And as the article mentions several other companies had similar disputes with cogent (I think they are behind the current YouTube problems and know they are behind the Netflix problems) and did the same at various times.
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Since switching from Comcast to Verizon 14 months ago, I've had consistent (read: every single attempt, no exceptions) issues pulling down YouTube video content. Any device over my home FiOS connection can barely pull down 240p videos without stalling to buffer - let alone 1080p. It is exceedingly rare to experience similar issues with any other video service. If I'm on my phone and switch from FiOS over wifi to LTE, the problem is resolved instantly. Yes, I've tried resetting all the equipment, and yes, I've tried plugging into an ethernet jack on the modem rather than use wifi. To no avail.
Now, there's a wonderful fix here: http://mitchribar.com/2013/02/time-warner-cable-sucks-for-youtube-twitchtv/
and it works for Verizon FiOS as well as for TWC - and it solves the problem on your computer. But it won't solve the problem on your other devices. Therefore, at my house, we cannot watch YouTube videos AT ALL from our Apple TV because they stall so badly. If I want to watch anything from my phone, I have to switch to LTE (can't use FiOS).
What's frustrating about this is that Verizon is happy to push "upgrades" to faster FiOS plans, and happy to take our money for the promise of improved speed. But many users never see that speed, because one of the primary use cases for high-bandwidth internet access – watching YouTube videos – is broken for them. It doesn't matter what technical excuse/explanation Verizon or its apologists release for this, it's a misrepresentation of service offerings not to issue a disclaimer about what to expect regarding YouTube access over FiOS.
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Check this guide out. You can use the Firewall capabilities of the ActionTec to apply the blocks: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28071070-How-to-Reddit-YouTube-firewall-rule-with-MI424wr
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