I have noticed my youtube being slow compared to my internet connection....i think you are right. I am on bigpond liberty as well.
I will be looking for a alternative youtube anyay, too many ads are showing....again..getting too powerful for my liking... From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of mike smith Sent: Wednesday, 31 October 2012 11:53 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] BigPond You Tube throttling On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Tony Wright <tonyw...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, <rant> I’m interested in seeing how many of you experience YouTube throttling. Is it deliberate throttling, or what I'd call accidental (caused maybe by inadequate backhaul)? It irritates me that I have BigPond Cable Ultimate Liberty, experiencing download speeds of between 50Mbps and 100Mbps most of the time, but any time I visit YouTube or ABC iView, I get atrocious speeds. I never got this when I was on TPG. If you use youtube, there is a youtube page where you can see a comparison to see how throttling is affecting you: http://www.youtube.com/my_speed It doesn't look good, but I am at work. I don't have any expectation that youtube should be good here. Basically, normal internet use would see lots of peaks and troughs. When being throttled, the lines flatten out somewhat, and are below the average. My speeds are consistently below Victorian average, and I’m on Telstra’s fastest product. WTF? I'll look at it on my vdsl2 connection at home, I'm paying for 100/30 there. vdsl seems to work better than adsl, but I think it's the typical installations (fibre to apartment basement, cat 5 to vdsl2 modem in apartment.) that fix the degradation with distance adsl suffers. Cable would be HFC? THat depends on how many users you have running off the local fibre node? I refer you to Graeme Samuel http://www.zdnet.com/fttn-hfc-are-dead-end-nbn-alternatives-samuel-7000005901/ HFC networks have gotten so bad that Samuel joked that he advises neighbours at the street Christmas party not to subscribe to Telstra's "hopeless" HFC — just so "at least I can continue to get reasonable speeds at 8 p.m." "Fortunately, most people listen to me as the local expert on the subject, and don't go onto Telstra's cable for their broadband," he laughed. "It's a great relief in my street." Bring on the NBN I say. </rant> Regards, Tony -- Meski <http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv> http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
