Slow access to YouTube & Twitch

[ravneillal]

From the past week i have been getting extremely slow speeds on youtube and twitch. Whenever i try to download videos from youtube to watch later using YTD Downloader i get around 25-40 KB/s which is really not what i used to get before and even if i do not download and watch directly off youtube i have to watch in 144p whereas before i would have no problem in watching a 1080p video without buffering and same goes for twitch now i can barely watch a 360p steam without it lagging.

I have a 10meg ADSL2+ connection at my home and i usually get around 5-8megs down and 1 up. Plus all other sites seem fine even torrents are rocking at 400-600 KB/s. I am in the Fiji Islands and my isp is Connect Internet Services.
I did lodge a complaint with my isp and they said their is no problem at their end. Alot of people have recently complained about this issue but their doesn't seem to be any solution to it.

 

I would like to know if any other people in the world are facing similar issues and any solution to the problem.

 

Thanks.

 

[Exo]

If a lot of people are complaining, then it's down to the ISP. Nothing you can really do on your end of things. HD - 1080p requires 5Mb internet to stream it, so you shouldn't have any problems.

[Joshua]

Although you said it's usually faster, the chances are it's still a problem on your end, something with your connection as Youtube and Twitch are extremely popular sites that if they started being slow, more people would say something.

[Cad6500]

Same here, must be a problem with YT itself...

[ravneillal]

Everything at my end seems to be fine. I did a reset of my router even had my firmware updated, i checked to see if their was any problems with my pc itself but their was none. I even got a laptop off a friend to test things out but all the time it was the same results. My isp had my data line reset and the cache cleared but still faced the same problem.

[colonel_mortis]

YouTube works fine for me. In fact, I can now watch in 1080p where as before I was limited to 720 (unfortunately, that came at the cost of them reducing the quality massively :() When you say a lot of other people have had the same issue, are they on the same ISP as you and/or in the same geographical area? Is there another video streaming site you could test that doesn't use youtube video? (There are quite a few if you look around). This lets us work out whether it's an issue with youtube and twitch or video streaming in general. Just to check, you don't have your torrent client open in the background (check processes) because it could be seeding and slowing down your internet loads. And what do you get on a speedtest?

[JanusBananus]

Your ISP might be throttiling you, not sure though

[ravneillal]

YouTube works fine for me. In fact, I can now watch in 1080p where as before I was limited to 720 (unfortunately, that came at the cost of them reducing the quality massively :() When you say a lot of other people have had the same issue, are they on the same ISP as you and/or in the same geographical area? Is there another video streaming site you could test that doesn't use youtube video? (There are quite a few if you look around). This lets us work out whether it's an issue with youtube and twitch or video streaming in general. Just to check, you don't have your torrent client open in the background (check processes) because it could be seeding and slowing down your internet loads. And what do you get on a speedtest?

This is happening country wide with all the ISP's located in Fiji. I did close my torrent client and checked for other processors that would chew my bandwidth but that is not the case. I did try a few other video hosting sites and streaming sites but no problems there. Only twitch and youtube seems to be affected. A technician from my ISP came over and did some testing and did something to my line and i have received a upgrade in my line speed now when i do a speed test i get 15.5Mbps down and .7 up. I now can watch YouTube in 480p without any problems but 720p and 1080p seems to buffer forever. 

[colonel_mortis]

This is happening country wide with all the ISP's located in Fiji. I did close my torrent client and checked for other processors that would chew my bandwidth but that is not the case. I did try a few other video hosting sites and streaming sites but no problems there. Only twitch and youtube seems to be affected. A technician from my ISP came over and did some testing and did something to my line and i have received a upgrade in my line speed now when i do a speed test i get 15.5Mbps down and .7 up. I now can watch YouTube in 480p without any problems but 720p and 1080p seems to buffer forever. 

Sounds like either there's something wrong with the infrastructure between you and the google/twitch servers (which is possible but not necessarily likely) or your government or all the ISPs are doing something with your internet traffic.

[xBlizzDevious]

I've not read the whole thread, but I think it's Youtube and/or Twitch rather than your internet or computer or browser etc. I used to be able to load up 20 tabs with a video loading in each one and watch from one to the next in 720P. Then Youtube started screwing everything up and I can barely watch one at 720P now. I have been known to watch videos and it auto-detect down to 144P as you said as well as when watching Linus' WAN show on Twitch and that stuttering like mad so switching to 480P, 360P and 240P and still getting severe stutter. That being said, I know that Linus has issues with ISPs throttling... A LOT...

[SkilledRebuilds]

HOW I OVERCAME TWITCH BUFFERING EVERY 5-10s

 

 

Block the incoming connection from either your router firewall, or windows firewall

This IP range "199.9.248.0 - 199.9.255.255"

I'm an aussie, and was buffering my mates channel every 5-10s, since doing this, I'm currently STILL watching this stream all in one hit with no buffering, have been for the last 15mins!

 

A huge difference, unwatchable to AWESOMELY watchable.

 

Reasons - Google is routing/limiting traffic, blocking the IP range it uses makes it default back to what it should be, no routing, full bandwidth.