is my isp limiting youtube's connection speed,or is it youtube's fault?

[McHox]

hey, i have a 50Mbit/s plan and i am mostly getting all of it(sometimes even more,e.g. 7 Mb/s in steam).

for a few day i can't really watch yt videos in 1080p without buffering every 2 seconds and i'm getting about 1230 Kbps(from the video stats) from youtube.
is youtube as slow as this for anyone else? could this be my isp(deutsche telekom) limiting the speed from youtube? 

[Lurick]

Have you tried running this test:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/internethealthtest/

 

[McHox]

2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Have you tried running this test:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/internethealthtest/

 

i didn't but the result is 6.93 Mbps,so no problem there

[pcshme33]

If you get a vpn, isps have a hard time trying to  throttle you as they have no clue telling weather you are watching youtube or not as a vpn sends one line of data to isps.

[McHox]

1 minute ago, EnemySp0tt3d said:

If you get a vpn, isps have a hard time trying to  throttle you as they have no clue telling weather you are watching youtube or not as a vpn sends one line of data to isps.

but the free ones i know usually suck,and i don't want to pay for it

[GER_T4IGA]

2 minutes ago, McHox said:

but the free ones i know usually suck,and i don't want to pay for it

tried tunnelbear yet, works a charm for me ;-)

[GER_T4IGA]

11 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Have you tried running this test:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/internethealthtest/

 

Ugh, www.speedtest.net

 

[Leonard]

I think it is YT because it is happening to me too. Currently investigating.

[pcshme33]

2 hours ago, GER_T4IGA said:

tried tunnelbear yet, works a charm for me ;-)

ah, a fellow tunnelbear member 

[McHox]

*ignore this one,can't delete*

[McHox]

4 minutes ago, GER_T4IGA said:

Ugh, www.speedtest.net

 

while watching netflix

[VictorianReaper]

3 minutes ago, EnemySp0tt3d said:

ah, a fellow tunnelbear member 

tunnelbear is only 500mb? right? thats about an hour of 480p

[GER_T4IGA]

2 minutes ago, McHox said:

while watching netflix

Could be youtube having some technical issues/doing updates. Are you watching old stuff/ does it occur on everything you watch? Nerver heard telekom throttles anything here.

[McHox]

1 minute ago, VictorianReaper said:

tunnelbear is only 500mb? right? thats about an hour of 480p

yep,the free version at least.i think you get an extra 500 if you tweet about it

[pcshme33]

2 hours ago, VictorianReaper said:

tunnelbear is only 500mb? right? thats about an hour of 480p

I pay yearly and I assume he does to.

[GER_T4IGA]

1 minute ago, McHox said:

yep,the free version at least.i think you get an extra 500 if you tweet about it

extra 1GB

[McHox]

1 minute ago, GER_T4IGA said:

Could be youtube having some technical issues/doing updates. Are you watching old stuff/ does it occur on everything you watch? Nerver heard telekom throttles anything here.

old/new stuff,on everything.and the telekom doesn't have the best reputation for this kinda stuff

[VictorianReaper]

5 minutes ago, McHox said:

old/new stuff,on everything.and the telekom doesn't have the best reputation for this kinda stuff

 load this video directly from youtube at 1080p it should take 4-6 seconds

the video is 49 seconds even though its a 30 second timer

[McHox]

2 minutes ago, VictorianReaper said:

 load this video directly from youtube at 1080p it should take 4-6 seconds

the page itself took about 10 sec,video was buffering ~15 sec. before starting and the video loading took another ~10 sec.

[MatthewsTech]

Unfortunately a lot of ISP's tend to throttle Youtube/Streaming traffic, so the likes of Netflix get punished for their bandwidth absorption capabilities, unless you mask the traffic using a VPN it is fairly difficult to stop ;-(

[McHox]

1 minute ago, MatthewsTech said:

Unfortunately a lot of ISP's tend to throttle Youtube/Streaming traffic, so the likes of Netflix get punished for their bandwidth absorption capabilities, unless you mask the traffic using a VPN it is fairly difficult to stop ;-(

netflix is as fast as it should be  it's only youtube 

[MatthewsTech]

1 minute ago, McHox said:

netflix is as fast as it should be  it's only youtube 

If you have buffering problems it may be worth checking the CPU usage etc of the browser as this negatively impacts the amount it can buffer, has it done this in the past or is this just suddenly effecting you? !

[McHox]

4 minutes ago, MatthewsTech said:

If you have buffering problems it may be worth checking the CPU usage etc of the browser as this negatively impacts the amount it can buffer, has it done this in the past or is this just suddenly effecting you? !

i guess that won't be a problem with my 4790k

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i only have this plan for 2 months and it started about 2 weeks ago

[MatthewsTech]

4 minutes ago, McHox said:

i guess that won't be a problem with my 4790k

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i only have this plan for 2 months and it started about 2 weeks ago

Fair enough! I'd say you're safe on usage terms; has the modem & or router been restarted since? I tend to find, oddly that VM in the UK tends to drop the speed of the connection / throttles it heavier based on how long the device has been on.

 

I would have presumed you have done this already as soon as you were aware of the issue, I would query Deutsche Telekom as to whether they are having any speed issues with the likes of Youtube as this could be down to peering issues, albeit unlikely!

 

 

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40 minutes ago, Lurick said:

Have you tried running this test:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/internethealthtest/

 

Are you sure that works?  We get anywhere from 20 to 25 Mbit and that's showing like 8 - 9