Hi everyone,
I have struggled for a day now to be able to stream Youtube Live Streams (not normal videos) on Afrihosts network. When I switch to WebAfrica it work exceptionally well, even at HD qualities. On Afrihost the video only plays for about three seconds and buffers for about 5 seconds which makes it impossible to watch anything.
So I did some digging. On WebAfrica the stream data originates from an actual google cache server here in South Africa. The interesting thing is that on Afrihosts network this is not the case. The stream data originates from 66.8.14.206 which is an MTN IP without a PTR record. My gut feeling tells me that this is a proxy server which is trying to cache the stream.
Could anyone else on Afrihost please try and see if they can play any live streams? Here is the link to the live playlist on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/SBAaOjE-GIlRI
I have struggled for a day now to be able to stream Youtube Live Streams (not normal videos) on Afrihosts network. When I switch to WebAfrica it work exceptionally well, even at HD qualities. On Afrihost the video only plays for about three seconds and buffers for about 5 seconds which makes it impossible to watch anything.
So I did some digging. On WebAfrica the stream data originates from an actual google cache server here in South Africa. The interesting thing is that on Afrihosts network this is not the case. The stream data originates from 66.8.14.206 which is an MTN IP without a PTR record. My gut feeling tells me that this is a proxy server which is trying to cache the stream.
Could anyone else on Afrihost please try and see if they can play any live streams? Here is the link to the live playlist on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/SBAaOjE-GIlRI