Re: Is Verizon Fios throttling down Youtube streaming?
Customerfromva

My old dial up connection was faster than the FIOS service we have now.

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Re: Is Verizon Fios throttling down Youtube streaming?
ohhVerizon
Enthusiast - Level 2

you may want to disable your anti-virus just to install the optimizer. It does help.

But it may not be your solution. It only helped me when I first had FIOS installed. I'm also getting extremely low DL speeds  <1 mbps

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Re: Is Verizon Fios throttling down Youtube streaming?
Netmask
Enthusiast - Level 1

I just switched to FIOS from Cox.  Youtube is slow and freezes with my fios connection.  I never had this happen with Cox.  I used a Sprint air card, and my streams were fine.  Either FIOS is throttling Youtube, or they have some network engineering issues.  Oh ya, all of the other sites I have used so far on FIOS do not seem to have any of the Youtube problems. 

Re: Is it me or youtube being slow at times?
sonicthoughts
Enthusiast - Level 2

There are thousands of reports of this.

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Re: Is it me or youtube being slow at times?
Hubrisnxs
Legend

it's youtube, sometimes it faster than other times.

that's the price of having a highly popular multi media streaming site, that caters to the entire planet *except egypt*

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Re: Is it me or youtube being slow at times?
Hubrisnxs
Legend

do a test.

go to google.

type 'youtube comcast problems'

see the results. 

then do the same google search but substitute comcast with nearly every provider name you can think of.  

be amazed

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Youtube buffering
jffrider12
Enthusiast - Level 2

I have an issue with You Tube buffering..i have 75/35 fios internet,and HD You Tube videos skip and buffer horribly..i have reset my tv with no improvement,..tv and computer both hard wired to router..router updated by technician 1/13..not impressed with fios..please help

Re: Youtube buffering
JamesMowery
Enthusiast - Level 2

Same exact issue here. 75/35 internet. Live in Chesapeake, Virginia. Buffering is horrible. The site is almost unusable at this point.

Where do you live?

I just got off the phone with a level 3 support agent, and she said there is a reported outage somewhere on the lines that was reported on the 7th, and she said it might be related to my videos streaming issue. Said it should be resolved within the next week and if not to call back.

She gave me an outage number that supposedly I can reference when I call back: {edited for privacy}

 

If I was you, I would definitely contact support and ask to speak to a level 3 network/line support technician and explain everything, so hopefully it will raise awareness. Maybe it is related to this, but if not, it seems a lot of people are having issues with YouTube either way.

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Re: Youtube buffering
JKBRENT
Newbie

I have been having this problem ever since switching to Verizon several months ago. It is only with YouTube and no other site with video. Not news sites or other entertainment media sites. There is just some kinf of issue with Verizon and YouTube. And, I don't believe it is a technical issue either...lol

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Re: Youtube buffering
smith6612
Community Leader
Community Leader

@JKBRENT wrote:

I have been having this problem ever since switching to Verizon several months ago. It is only with YouTube and no other site with video. Not news sites or other entertainment media sites. There is just some kinf of issue with Verizon and YouTube. And, I don't believe it is a technical issue either...lol


It can't be anything other than a technical issue to be honest unless it is genuinely some sort of dispute between Verizon and Google causing this issue which is unlikely since Google already pays Verizon for connectivity to their network. I've mentioned this many times before. If you have many people on very fast connections (FiOS) and you send all of your traffic down a single common pipe (most residential providers do), all of the customers use a single set of DNS Servers (most ISPs do this), and you are all feeding off of a single set of cache servers, you will have massive slow-downs at night. Very few providers have their own caching servers on network for YouTube and instead have to rely on whatever Google themselves can pump out. Read the Google forums sometimes and you'll find the speed issues prop up for ISPs that offer higher than usual speeds.

Yet again, it could also just be the sad state that many networks are found in within this country.

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