On Saturday 01 August 2009 18:56:24 Paul Hartman wrote: > Following that thought -- I wonder if there is a special YouTube > server for my ISP and the standard/outside YouTube server farm is > blocked? I've read about Google hosting servers at or near major ISPs > to reduce the number of hops, but have never heard anything about my > ISP doing it. I do not use my ISP's DNS servers, so I could very well > be trying access a "different" YouTube. I guess I will have to do some > lookups on their servers and compare the results.
That is certainly possible - Google has YouTube caches all over the world. It's not inconceivable that tweaks for specific browsers accidentally nuke the content. The test for this would be to try to view videos through a different ISP> Are you able to do this? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
