FTTN primetime throttling on Youtube

[rtrinh]

Had two cases tonight. The first one for a few minutes was bad but the "Stream Host" would switch and the connection speed jumps up and plays normally. I was going to do a VPN comparison but by the time I had my virtual machine booted up, the stream host had changed and the video was playing fine.

The second was about 15 minutes ago but the video was less than 2 minutes so i never saw the stream host change and any subsequent videos played had no problems.

Screenshot of the second case.

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[geogriffin]

Can anyone try running traceroute to YouTube during the congestion/throttling so we can tell on which hop packets are being lost or buffered? and maybe a wireshark tcp analysis to see whether it's lost or delayed packets?

[bobrk]

I watched several very long YouTubes (go SpaceX!) last night on my Apple TV with no buffering at all.

[dct]

Thanks for the feedback and information, everyone - we really appreciate your patience and willingness to troubleshoot this issue. If anyone has been experiencing these issues recently (e.g, the past two weeks or so), and has not PM'd me with your account info, please do so!

To anyone who has sent me a PM, I'll be reaching out to you shortly to follow up.