[TriLUG] Is TWC throttling CDN traffic (youtube/amazonprime/netflix) ?

Aaron Joyner aaron at joyner.ws
Wed Mar 20 13:48:34 EDT 2013


For my curiosity, can someone with an example of a slow or poor
YouTube experience provide the actual IP that they're streaming video
from?  In particular, something more specific than a /16.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Randy Barlow
<randy at electronsweatshop.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:07:14 -0400
> Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:
>> I have not been seeing any issues. Then again, I have been accessing
>> YouTube over IPv6 and I don't think TWC knows what that is :)
>
> I too use an HE tunnel, but somehow the YouTube videos seem to be using
> a hostname that doesn't have an AAAA record, and so my video traffic is
> going to one of the sad throttling servers.
>
> I've done an anecdotal polling of my friends who use HE, and most of
> them do not have this happen to them, but one other friend does.
>
> I've also tried blocking various IP ranges to no avail.
>
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