https://www.boards.ie/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:10:24 +0000 en limiting — boards.ie - Now Ye're Talkin' https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057577076/vodafone-throttling-access-to-youtube Fri, 25 Mar 2016 09:43:37 +0000 Broadband MichealKenny 2057577076@/discussions



My connection speed to the server is 1033Kbps even though I am getting my regular 5-6Mbps on other services. I feel the connection speed is too close to a round number to not be throttling, so I do an IP whois on the stream host:



Vodafone operates this particular Youtube server. So I create a firewall rule to drop all packets to the address of that server, but Youtube just stopped working. So instead I create a few NAT rules to simply forward requests for the Vodafone Youtube server, to a Youtube server directly operated by Google, and this is the result:



My regular speed.


I feel that the connection speed being bang on 1Mbps 24/7 means that this is probably throttling as opposed to congestion. What do you guys think?

PS: The screenshots use different videos, but in actual testing I used the same video, browser, & PC.]]>