Youtube Buffering

Type RSA

Type RSA

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Hey Guys and Gals,

I have noticed that Youtube seems to buffer a lot lately. I did some investigating and found that there is quite a bit of latency on the Google side of things. Has anyone else seen this lately? My videos just do not want to play properly and this is on a 100mb uncapped fibre line. I have tested this on multiple ISPs and multiple fibre providers and all seem to have the same issues.

See below tracert:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.10.1
2 5 ms 2 ms 2 ms 154.117.185.1
3 37 ms 36 ms 36 ms google.ixp.joburg [196.60.8.166]
4 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 72.14.239.129
5 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms jnb01s08-in-f14.1e100.net [216.58.223.46]

Trace complete.
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I think something is up with the Google servers in Joburg.

Just want to know if I am alone :)
 
Yeah, I've been seeing that a couple of times last week too.

traceroute to 216.58.223.46 (216.58.223.46), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 155.93.152.1 (155.93.152.1) 0.874 ms 0.506 ms 0.494 ms
2 uo1-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.3.97) 0.785 ms 0.781 ms 0.608 ms
3 c3h-backbone.coolideas.co.za (154.0.2.125) 1.061 ms 0.482 ms 0.475 ms
4 c1u-backbone.coolideas.co.za (154.0.1.66) 1.184 ms 0.937 ms 0.940 ms
5 google.ixp.joburg (196.60.8.166) 23.947 ms 26.187 ms 28.551 ms
6 72.14.239.129 (72.14.239.129) 1.199 ms 1.138 ms 1.237 ms
7 jnb01s08-in-f46.1e100.net (216.58.223.46) 1.069 ms 0.964 ms 0.992 ms
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boyequal said:
Yeah, I've been seeing that a couple of times last week too.
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traceroute to 216.58.223.46 (216.58.223.46), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 155.93.152.1 (155.93.152.1) 0.874 ms 0.506 ms 0.494 ms
2 uo1-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.3.97) 0.785 ms 0.781 ms 0.608 ms
3 c3h-backbone.coolideas.co.za (154.0.2.125) 1.061 ms 0.482 ms 0.475 ms
4 c1u-backbone.coolideas.co.za (154.0.1.66) 1.184 ms 0.937 ms 0.940 ms
5 google.ixp.joburg (196.60.8.166) 23.947 ms 26.187 ms 28.551 ms
6 72.14.239.129 (72.14.239.129) 1.199 ms 1.138 ms 1.237 ms
7 jnb01s08-in-f46.1e100.net (216.58.223.46) 1.069 ms 0.964 ms 0.992 ms

This trace looks perfect? I don't think it's us that's the issue, could be google having some caching issues.
 
PBCool said:
traceroute to 216.58.223.46 (216.58.223.46), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 155.93.152.1 (155.93.152.1) 0.874 ms 0.506 ms 0.494 ms
2 uo1-cust.coolideas.co.za (154.0.3.97) 0.785 ms 0.781 ms 0.608 ms
3 c3h-backbone.coolideas.co.za (154.0.2.125) 1.061 ms 0.482 ms 0.475 ms
4 c1u-backbone.coolideas.co.za (154.0.1.66) 1.184 ms 0.937 ms 0.940 ms
5 google.ixp.joburg (196.60.8.166) 23.947 ms 26.187 ms 28.551 ms
6 72.14.239.129 (72.14.239.129) 1.199 ms 1.138 ms 1.237 ms
7 jnb01s08-in-f46.1e100.net (216.58.223.46) 1.069 ms 0.964 ms 0.992 ms

This trace looks perfect? I don't think it's us that's the issue, could be google having some caching issues.
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Not perfect. Your 5th hop is where the issue is..

5 google.ixp.joburg (196.60.8.166) 23.947 ms 26.187 ms 28.551 ms

If there is no latency on this hop Youtube performs like a dream
 
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Type RSA said:
Not perfect. Your 5th hop is where the issue is..

5 google.ixp.joburg (196.60.8.166) 23.947 ms 26.187 ms 28.551 ms

If there is no latency on this hop Youtube performs like a dream
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That hop is over to Googles peer, latency along a path might be impaired but your destination looks perfect which is where the content would come from.

I cant say how Google manages their border routers, but yeah that hop seems to have this latency from all parts of the network.
 
PBCool said:
That hop is over to Googles peer, latency along a path might be impaired but your destination looks perfect which is where the content would come from.

I cant say how Google manages their border routers, but yeah that hop seems to have this latency from all parts of the network.
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Yep and when Youtube performs normally, that hop is returning lower latency numbers.

Hope they will sort it out soon.
 
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