Youtube issues This Evening upc

mark17j

Anybody any issues loading Youtube Videos tonight?
Not loading for me.
On UPC bb in Dublin west

DominoDub

Yes it has been failing to load for some hours now ..!:mad:

Location Dublin 2 City Centre

Gunhed

Galway here, it's broken for me as well.

JaMarcusHustle

Dublin city centre, also having problems.

colm_mcm

Yep, same here in the wesht

mark17j

Thanks all for replies......... still down

JustAddWater

Lucan problems for me too!

SimonTemplar

Same for me...Dublin city center

Custardpi

What browser are ye using? In Dublin here & Firefox doesn't work at all for youtube. However, on Chrome the videos buffer for about 20 - 30 seconds then work fine.

SimonTemplar

What could cause Youtube buffering issues on a specific browser in a particular geographic location??

ED E

Fine here.

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Noticed an artist I follow on FB saying he had a 5 minute full outage. My suspicion is we may have had the above happen again.

Sobanek

Same here. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

I'm in Kildare.

Unearthly

Just spent about 30 minutes messing around with my phone thinking it was an issue with it. Doh...

Matrix8283

Hey all i fixed mine by changing DNS 1 to 8.8.8.8 and DNS 2 8.8.8.4 settings on what ever device you are trying to connect to youtube.

BionicRasher

Just watching Generation War on the chromecast. No issues here in South / East Cork

teddyhead

Having problems with it also. Its been on the blink for three hours. Otherwise , internet is fine.
I am in Limerick.

solomafioso

+1 for slow, broken youtube. A twitter search brings up the same issue. I must have reinstalled flash about five times thinking that was the problem!

carlkbe

I changed the DNS settings on my iPad to Googles DNS servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 and now YouTube is working perfectly.

KCAccidental

bad here in Cork City as well

solomafioso

For those changing their DNS settings to Google's Public DNS, is there a reason you prefer their one? Just putting on the oul tinfoil hat here!

dublincelt

carlkbe wrote: »

I changed the DNS settings on my iPad to Googles DNS servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 and now YouTube is working perfectly.

Great stuff cheers for that, working now also with those DNS settings, strange..

Stiletto72

Same problems here in Loughlinstown.
IE and Firefox.

teddyhead

dublincelt wrote: »

Great stuff cheers for that, working now also with those DNS settings, strange..

Worked for me too.
I had to google 'how to' though. Its a bit tricky for a noob.

Sobanek

dublincelt wrote: »

Great stuff cheers for that, working now also with those DNS settings, strange..

I can also confirm it works with these DNS settings.

ED E

solomafioso wrote: »

For those changing their DNS settings to Google's Public DNS, is there a reason you prefer their one? Just putting on the oul tinfoil hat here!

I find them slightly faster than UPCs a chunk of the time, and also this outage proves that UPCs arent reliable or are too slow to update.

ShaneU

Youtube wouldn't work so I changed my dns to OpenDNS and my wifi speeds have doubled! Getting 80mb+, before I got around 40mb. Unbelievable .

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Last Result:
Download Speed: 81297 kbps (10162.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 10330 kbps (1291.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 8 ms
Jitter: 2 ms
9/9/2014 1:02:38 AM

ShaneU

ShaneU wrote: »

Youtube wouldn't work so I changed my dns to OpenDNS and my wifi speeds have doubled! Getting 80mb+, before I got around 40mb. Unbelievable .

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Last Result:
Download Speed: 81297 kbps (10162.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 10330 kbps (1291.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 8 ms
Jitter: 2 ms
9/9/2014 1:02:38 AM

Nice.

For the uninitiated, how'd you do that?

I'm getting the same Youtube problem, but if I disconnect from my UPC WiFi connection and link to my Meteor 4G instead the problem disappears.

Mech1

youtube awol in Knocklyon

ShaneU

Deleted User wrote: »

Nice.

For the uninitiated, how'd you do that?

http://192.168.1.1/

setup > lan setup

LAN 1 Static DNS 1: 208.67.222.222
LAN 1 Static DNS 2: 208.67.220.220

ShaneU

ShaneU wrote: »

http://192.168.1.1/

setup > lan setup

LAN 1 Static DNS 1: 208.67.222.222
LAN 1 Static DNS 2: 208.67.220.220

Cheers. Didn't actually make any difference for me, but there you go. Worth a try anyway.

adamsomers

Portlaoise, Same as everyone else been down all night with no improvements, In firefox its a no go what so ever with the following "An Error Occurred, Please Try Again Later" and Chrome it eventually loads but pretty badly. On UPC 200mb.. I ran through a VPN (ExPat Shield) and all was fine (Apart from loosing 180mb in speed. But lately i'v noticed horrible throttling on UPC and they are denying it point blank when i know its them as with a VPN the issues i call about dont exist. Only help i get is, "Have you tried forwarding your ports"..

adamsomers

Also guys, Changing your DNS may help the initial problem, But it could also decrease your speeds drastically. Maybe not for everyone though. Also AVOID OpenDNS like a plague. Same with Google but they arent as bad. check here for why. apcmag (DOT) com/why-using-google-dns-opendns-is-a-bad-idea (DOT) htm

Here is a list of them to try if ye wanna see what results you get.

Level31
209.244.0.3
209.244.0.4

Google2
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

Comodo Secure DNS
8.26.56.26
8.20.247.20

OpenDNS Home3
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

DNS Advantage
156.154.70.1
156.154.71.1

Norton ConnectSafe4
199.85.126.10
199.85.127.10

GreenTeamDNS5
81.218.119.11
209.88.198.133

SafeDNS6
195.46.39.39
195.46.39.40

OpenNIC7
216.87.84.211
23.90.4.6

Public-Root8
199.5.157.131
208.71.35.137

SmartViper
208.76.50.50
208.76.51.51

Dyn
216.146.35.35
216.146.36.36

FreeDNS9
37.235.1.174
37.235.1.177

censurfridns.dk10
89.233.43.71
89.104.194.142

Hurricane Electric11
74.82.42.42

puntCAT12
109.69.8.51

EDIT..

I decided to be curious and try Googles DNS, Speed is good.. downloaded some steam games at 24.7mbps but it does get throttled so keep that in mind if your a heavy traffic user. i'm currently sitting at 7.3mbps but i downloaded about 15GB before that happened.

mwrf

The DNS servers you are using has NOTHING to do with the speed you can download.

There may be a difference in initially connecting in that the domain name you are looking up will be returned slightly faster but once you have resolved the IP address for the server you are connecting to, traffic through the DNS servers you have set has finished. The speed differences you are seeing are a coincidence or some other external influence.

Confirming the issue here with YouTube on UPC. This happened before and turned out to be an internal UPC routing issue.

TheDoc

Was out for me yesterday and still out. Swords Dublin.

galson

Cork, youtube down since yesterday evening. Tried my desktop, laptop, netbook, PS3 and Galaxy S5, same everywhere. Works fine on Meteor 4G.

icdg

I was the same this morning. Site loads but videos won't play.

mark17j

checked again just now and it's back.:)

TheDoc

According to their twitter they seem to be dealing with cases one by one, weird they don't cop it's clearly widespread with so many messages sent to them

ED E

TheDoc wrote: »

According to their twitter they seem to be dealing with cases one by one, weird they don't cop it's clearly widespread with so many messages sent to them

Thats the way they always do it. They dont like admitting to any systematic issues. Their talk to forum is a little bit of a joke as everything is taken to PMs after one post.

carlkbe

solomafioso wrote: »

For those changing their DNS settings to Google's Public DNS, is there a reason you prefer their one? Just putting on the oul tinfoil hat here!

Google's DNS servers are free, reliable and trustworthy.

solomafioso

carlkbe wrote: »

Google's DNS servers are free, reliable and trustworthy.

Thanks for that.

I ran Namebench to check, and it actually says that UPC's DNS is the best!?

TheDoc

Issue resolved for me now anyway according to the other half at home.

UPC Twitter account indicated they were aware of the issue and it is now resolved, and normal service will resume over the course of the morning

carlkbe

solomafioso wrote: »

Thanks for that.

I ran Namebench to check, and it actually says that UPC's DNS is the best!?

Yeah when it's working properly it's always better to use your ISP's DNS.

ED E

FYI

charlie_says

^^^^^^

Got a little problem with your maths there.

Actually looking at the response times there, UPC resloves uncached DNS queries at ~70ms whilst Google does ~110ms a significant speed difference. So for a unknown website UPC are faster, considerably so.


The cached queries response time don't really matter as your Operating System will already have them in the local cache if you visited them recently, which it can read at extremely high speeds. If it's not there, it's uncached so see above.

edit: this whole issue is probably caused by Akamai as you hinted to in your post - I'd imagine something happened to the youtube cache for UPCs hosted Akamai Content Delivery Network server(s). This youtube problem isn't related to DNS resolution speed.

KCAccidental

youtube was fine earlier, now it's gone to pot again! could increased evening traffic be the cause?

platinums

three modem, is pant now as well, the last week.

Is this something to do wit the Net Neut going on?

Daily motion is fine, steam dl's at 1.2mb/sec on 4G, so its not the connection

BeerWolf

On THREE... Youtube, specically, has been incredibly dodgy for the past number of days... constantly buffering... even though my connection everywhere else is perfectly fine.