Time Warner throttling

[Pandiies]

So I recently did the command line trick to speed up youtube and other things and have not noticed a difference. I was wondering if any of you knew how to reverse it? Thanks in advance.

[sk8ermanblue]

What was the CLI that you put in?

[Pandiies]

What do you mean by CLI? 

[RogueAfterlife]

Command Line Interface

[Pandiies]

sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 173.194.55.0/24 in

sudo ipfw add reject src-ip 206.111.0.0/16 in

 I used this 

[Darren]

Err, why would that speed YouTube up?

 

Edit: Ah, so your ISP (TWC) are being assholes. Apparently it blocks some servers which throttle the connection, so YouTube is forced to create a Direct Connection to you, thus getting faster speeds.

 

To remove do the following:

 

Run sudo ipfw list: This will list all the rules with a corresponding number. We will use this number to reference the rule

Run sudo ipfw delete {rule}, where {rule} is the number referencing the rule you want to remove.

 

For example:

 

Darrens-MacBook-Pro:~ darren$ sudo ipfw list

00100 reject ip from 173.194.55.0/24 to any in

65535 allow ip from any to any

Darrens-MacBook-Pro:~ darren$ sudo ipfw delete 00100

Darrens-MacBook-Pro:~ darren$ sudo ipfw list

65535 allow ip from any to any

[Pandiies]

Thanks Darren. It worked

[AMICLG]

 

Err, why would that speed YouTube up?

He's going directly to Youtube's sever rather than TWC's cached sever (that watches what you do as well :ph34r:)

[joshuamurphy]

is this linux? i reconized the sudo and ipfw

[Pandiies]

It's Mac os x