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Youtube has a very poor connection around my area in Canada. Video connections are unreliable, unexpectedly dropping or just being slow. Slower than the Kbps of

Youtube has a very poor connection around my area in Canada. Video connections are unreliable, unexpectedly dropping or just being slow. Slower than the Kbps of the video I'm trying to watch. For youtube's client side player this is completely intolerable. Which is why you don't depend on youtube's clientside player for anything. Use SMplayers downloader, or youtube-dl, or videodownloadhelper. These make use of more dependable protocols for downloading the video, and they will download 100% of the video. You can buffer several videos up and watch effectively. My user experience is so much better than what people experience through official channels. How can that be? I hacked my user experience together with bits of string and duct tape. Why should my experience be so miserable on official channels when so many manhours have supposedly went into making that experience the best? Should you really be losing out to bits of string and duct tape? What the ISP's are doing to youtube isn't fair, but the ISP's are clearly not the only ones at fault.

gregsadetsky 13y ago
What area? What ISP? Let's start naming and shaming.. ;) I had a pathetic experience with an ISP "reselling" Bell's DSL service. The ISP's name is Distributel. YouTube would not, at "peak times" (6pm - 9pm on weekdays, most times on weekends), work at 1080. The download speed forced you to wait for the entire clip to pre-buffer before it would be possible to play it. What was frustrating was that opening an SSH proxy to a US server (hosted at Linode) and going through that proxy would allow you to watch 1080 clips with plenty of pre-buffering headroom. I tried to explain this to tech support (with bandwidth measurements, etc) to no avail. I finally switched over to TekSavvy who have always had their shit down. They truly rock (the tech support is amazing).
- GhotiFish 13y ago
  Shaw. lower mainland. Also I can't get out of using shaw, Telus isn't competing with them, and there are no other lines into our complex. I am stuck with them, I have no choice. I want to leave. I wish I had TekSavvy. I really do. Next time I move I'm checking which telecoms I have access to. If it's only shaw or telus, I'm demanding discounts.

gregsadetsky 13y ago

What area? What ISP? Let's start naming and shaming.. ;) I had a pathetic experience with an ISP "reselling" Bell's DSL service. The ISP's name is Distributel. YouTube would not, at "peak times" (6pm - 9pm on weekdays, most times on weekends), work at 1080. The download speed forced you to wait for the entire clip to pre-buffer before it would be possible to play it. What was frustrating was that opening an SSH proxy to a US server (hosted at Linode) and going through that proxy would allow you to watch 1080 clips with plenty of pre-buffering headroom. I tried to explain this to tech support (with bandwidth measurements, etc) to no avail. I finally switched over to TekSavvy who have always had their shit down. They truly rock (the tech support is amazing).

GhotiFish 13y ago
Shaw. lower mainland. Also I can't get out of using shaw, Telus isn't competing with them, and there are no other lines into our complex. I am stuck with them, I have no choice. I want to leave. I wish I had TekSavvy. I really do. Next time I move I'm checking which telecoms I have access to. If it's only shaw or telus, I'm demanding discounts.